1609

1609

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
Galileo Galilei is the first to perform observational astronomy with a telescope.
The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo.
The 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