1609

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Years: 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1609 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1609 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1609 MDCIX Ab urbe condita 2362 Armenian calendar 1058 ԹՎ ՌԾԸ Chinese calendar 4245/4305-11-26 (戊申年十一月廿六日) — to — 4246/4306-12-6 (己酉年十二月初六日) Ethiopian calendar 1601 – 1602 Hebrew calendar 5369 – 5370 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1664 – 1665 - Shaka Samvat 1531 – 1532 - Kali Yuga 4710 – 4711 Iranian calendar 987 – 988 Islamic calendar 1018 – 1019 Japanese calendar Keichō 14 (慶長14年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2269 (皇紀2269年) - Jōmon Era 11609 Thai solar calendar 2152

1609 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Exact date not available 2 Science 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, published in Augsburg, Germany.
• February 4 – According to the Japanese lunar calendar, last day of Keichō 慶長 13
• April 4 – Felipe III (Phillip III), King of Spain, signs an edict of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain (See September 11).
• 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 expels all the Moriscos (see April 4).
• September 12 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
• October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.

[edit] Exact date not available

• 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
• Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland

[edit] Science

• Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova
• Hugo Grotius - Mare liberum
• Cornelius Drebbel invents thermostat

[edit] Births

• 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 (died 1650)
• 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)

See also Category:1609 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (born 1540)
• February 17 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1549)
• March 9 - William Warner, English poet (born c1558)
• March 25 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
• April 4 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (born 1526)
• May 15 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (born 1557)
• July 15 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1560)
• August 22 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born 1525)
• October 1 - Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (born c1532)
• December 4 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (born 1560)
• Al-Jilani, Persian physician
• Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (born 1547)
• Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman (born 1544)
• Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian (born 1560)
• James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (born c1537)
• Barnabe Barnes, English poet (born 1568)
• Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Italian Baroque composer (born 1582)
• Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Scottish statesman (born 1553)
• Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (born 1543)

See also Category:1609 deaths.