1609
Year 1609 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1609
January - June
July - December
July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty ).
July 23 - Jamestown : A hurricane at sea separates the 9 ships (600 more settlers) en route, one ship sinks, and the ship Sea Venture wrecks at Bermuda .
July 28 - Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English Sea Venture , en route to Virginia .
August 25 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of Jupiter , after the manner of the ancient Egyptians who named the stars (astro-nomers ), at the Edfu temple, over 2,000 years earlier.
August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay .
August - Jamestown : Seven ships arrive at the colony, with 200-300 men, women, and children, reporting that the Sea Venture wrecked near Bermuda .
September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen .
September 10 - Jamestown : Capt. George Percy replaces Captain John Smith as president of the Council, and Smith returns to England.
September 11 - Valencia expels all the Moriscos (see April 4 ).
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Births
February 10 - John Suckling , English poet (d. 1642 )
February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , English historian and statesman (d. 1674 )
March 22 - John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672 )
March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670 )
March 29 - Sarah Boyle , English noblewoman (d. 1633 )
May 16 (or 1610) - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand , Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1641 )
June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet , French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680 )
August 6 - Richard Bennett , British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675 )
August 19 - Jean Rotrou , French poet and tragedian (d. 1650 )
October 5 - Paul Fleming , German poet (d. 1640 )
October 8 - John Clarke , English physician (d. 1676 )
October 26 - William Sprague , English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675 )
November 1 - Matthew Hale , Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1676 )
November 25 - Henrietta Maria of France , queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669 )
November 26 - Henry Dunster , first President of Harvard College (d. 1659 )
December 24 - Philip Warwick , English writer and politician (d. 1683 )
date unknown
probable - Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède , French novelist and dramatist (d. 1663 )
See also Category:1609 births .
Deaths
January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger , French Protestant scholar (b. 1540 )
February 17 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549 )
March - James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (b. c. 1537 )
March 9 - William Warner , English poet (b. c. 1558 )
March 22 - Al-Jilani , Persian physician
March 25 - Olaus Martini , Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557 )
April 4 - Charles de L'Ecluse , Flemish botanist (b. 1526 )
April 8 - Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian , Scottish statesman (b. 1553 )
May 15 - Giovanni Croce , Italian composer (b. 1557 )
July 15 - Annibale Carracci , Italian painter (b. 1560 )
July 20 - Federico Zuccari , Italian painter (b. 1543 )
August 22 - Maharal of Prague , Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525 )
October 1 - Gianmatteo Asola , Italian composer (b. c. 1532 )
October 19 - Jacobus Arminius , Dutch Reformed theologian (b. 1560 )
December 4 - Alexander Hume , Scottish poet (b. 1560 )
date unknown
See also Category:1609 deaths .
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