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1609

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
• July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
• August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
• September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
• October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
• Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
• Galileo Galilei is the first to perform observational astronomy with a telescope.
• The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
• Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion.
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo.
• The Rheims bible is published in England.
• Bermuda is first settled, by English shipwreck victims en route to Virginia.
• The Netherlands and Spain agree to the Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War

Year in topic

• 1609 in literature
• 1609 in science

Births

• March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark
• November 25 - Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra, later Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Deaths

• January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, protestant scholar
• Barnabe Barnes, English poet
• Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter

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