1610
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January 7 -
Galileo Galilei discovers the
Galilean moons of
Jupiter.
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March 12 –
Swedish troops under
Jacob de la Gardie take
Moscow.
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May 13-
14 –
Francois Ravaillac assassinates
Henry IV of France.
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May 27 -
Ravaillac is executed by pulling him apart in the
Place de Grève.
*
July 5 -
John Guy sets sail from
Bristol with 39 other colonists for
Newfoundland.
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August 2 -
Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as
Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the
Northwest Passage and reached the
Pacific Ocean.
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October 17 -
Louis XIII of France crowned.
Unknown dates
*
Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe
sunspots by
telescope.
*
Poland captures
Moscow, just to lose it again to
Russian and
Swedish troops.
* In
Jamestown,
Virginia, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter and they may have to rely on
cannibalism.
* King of
France expelled
Muslims from his realm.
*
Arabella Stuart, pretender to the
English throne, imprisoned for marrying
William Seymour.
* The
Orion Nebula is discovered by
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
*
Bonham's Case decided by
Edward Coke chief justice of
England's Court of Common Pleas. Coke affirmed the supremacy of the
common law which limited the power of
Parliament as well as the king.
*
Jean Beguin -
Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about
chemistry*
January 13 -
Maria Anna of Austria (died
1665)
*
March 1 -
John Pell, English mathematician (died
1685)
*
April 1 -
Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (died
1703)
*
April 22 -
Pope Alexander VIII (died
1691)
*
April 23 -
Lettice Boyle, English noblewoman (died
1657)
*
May 18 -
Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (died
1664)
*
July 14 -
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died
1670)
*
October 6 -
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (died
1690)
*
October 19 -
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (died
1688)
*
December 9 -
Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (died
1680)
*
December 12 -
Saint Vasilije (died
1671)
*
December 15 -
David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (died
1690)
*
December 18 -
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, philologist and historian (died
1688)
*
Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (died
1681)
*
George Carteret, English Royalist statesman (died
1680)
*
Raynold Curicke, jurist and historian of Danzig (died
1667)
*
Richard Deane, soldier, sailor, and regicide (died
1653)
*
Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died
1666)
*
William Dobson, English portrait painter (died
1646)
*
Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (died
1688)
*
Jean de Labadie, French mystic (died
1674)
*
Li Yu, Chinese writer (died
1680)
*
Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit and historian (died
1686)
*
François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died
1683)
*
Pierre Mignard, French painter (died
1695)
*
Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (died
1685)
*
Philip Sherman, founder of Rhode Island (died
1687)
*
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian (died
1686)
See also :Category:1610 births.*
April 15 -
Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (born
1546)
*
May 11 -
Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest (born
1552)
*
May 14 - King
Henry IV of France (assassinated) (born
1553)
*
May 19 -
Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b.
1550)
*
May 27 -
François Ravaillac, French assassin of
Henry IV of France (born
1578)
*
July 18 -
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (born
1573)
*
October 14 -
Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born
1540)
*
November 2 -
Richard Bancroft,
Archbishop of Canterbury (born
1544)
*
November 17 -
Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (born
1518)
*
December 3 -
Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (born
1548)
*
December 31 -
Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (born
1540)
*
Peter Bales, English calligraphist (born
1547)
*
Girolamo Diruta, Italian organist (born
1554)
*
Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (born
1539)
*
False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
*
Richard Knolles, English historian (born
1545)
*
Joachim Lubomirski, Polish nobleman
*
Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish poet (born
1545)
*
Stanislaw Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (born
1551)
*
Barbara Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (born
1566)
See also :Category:1610 deaths.
