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1610

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

Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s

Years: 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
• July 5 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
• Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe sunspots telescopically.
• Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.

Year in topic

• 1610 in literature
• 1610 in science

Births

• April 22 - Pietro Vitto Ottoboni later Pope Alexander VIII

Deaths

• May 14 - King Henry IV of France
• May 27 - Ravaillac, assassin who killed ­Henry IV of France

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