Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years: 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 - 1613 - 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618
Events January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery. February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty. Francesco Andreini's L'Adamo is published. King James I of Scotland successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden. The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire Adriaen Block's ship Tyger is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan. Year in topic 1613 in literature 1613 in science Births André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (died 1700) Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688) Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662) Richard Crashaw, English religious poet (died 1649) François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (died 1680) Deaths April 27 - Robert Abercromby Thomas Overbury, English poet (born 1581) Thomas Bodley, Englsih scholar and diplomat (born 1545)
