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Years: 1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613

Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Contents 1 Events 2 Science 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
• March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow
• May 13-14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France
• 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.
• October 17 - Louis XIII of France crowned

• 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.
• Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
• 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.

Science

• Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry

Births

• 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)

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Deaths

• 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)

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