1609

Years: 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Events

April 4 – King of Spain signs an edict of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain
April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence
May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty)
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
August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
September 11 – Valencia expulses all the Moriscos
September 12 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo.
The Douay 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
Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe
Japanese clan of Shimazu conquers Okinawa
Cornelius Drebbel invents thermostat
Henry Hudson explores Delaware Bay and Hudson River
Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland

Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova
Hugo Grotius - Mare liberum

February 10 - John Suckling, English poet (died 1642)
February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman (died 1674)
March 22 - John II Casimir of Poland (died 1672)
March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1670)
March 29 - Sarah Boyle, English noblewoman (died 1633)
June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
August 19 - Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian
November 25 - Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (died 1669)
November 26 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (died 1659)
December 24 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (died 1683)
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (died 1663)
John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
Nathaniel Eaton, first schoolmaster of Harvard College (died 1674)
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (died 1641)
Paul Fleming, German poet (died 1640)
Jan Fyt, Belgian animal painter (died 1661)
Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1676)
Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (died 1661)
Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (died 1666)
John Underhill, English soldier and colonist (died 1672)
Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
Lucas d'Achéry, learned French Benedictine (died 1685)