Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 - 1608 - 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613

Table of contents

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Events

• July 3 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat.
• Swedish troops enter Moscow
• Telescope invented by Hans Lippershey

• 1608 in literature
• 1608 in science

• July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
• December 9 - John Milton

• December - John Dee