1609

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1609 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1609
MDCIX
Ab urbe condita2362
Armenian calendar1058
ԹՎ ՌԾԸ
Assyrian calendar6359
Balinese saka calendar1530–1531
Bengali calendar1016
Berber calendar2559
English Regnal year6 Ja. 1 – 7 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2153
Burmese calendar971
Byzantine calendar7117–7118
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4305 or 4245
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4306 or 4246
Coptic calendar1325–1326
Discordian calendar2775
Ethiopian calendar1601–1602
Hebrew calendar5369–5370
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1665–1666
 - Shaka Samvat1530–1531
 - Kali Yuga4709–4710
Holocene calendar11609
Igbo calendar609–610
Iranian calendar987–988
Islamic calendar1017–1018
Japanese calendarKeichō 14
(慶長１４年)
Javanese calendar1529–1530
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3942
Minguo calendar303 before ROC
民前303年
Nanakshahi calendar141
Thai solar calendar2151–2152
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1735 or 1354 or 582
    — to —
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1736 or 1355 or 583
The Twelve Years' Truce is agreed upon.

1609 (MDCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1609th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 609th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1609, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January 15: Avisa newspaper begins publication.
August 25: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope.


January–June[]

July–December[]

  • July – Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont, for the Kingdom of France.
  • July 9 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty).
  • July 10 – The German Catholic League is formed to counteract the Protestant Union.
  • July 23 – A hurricane at sea separates the nine London Company's ships (600 more settlers) en route to relieve the Jamestown settlement; one ship sinks, and the Sea Venture is driven ashore at Bermuda on July 25, thus effectively first settling the colony.
  • July 30 – At what is now Crown Point, New York, Samuel de Champlain participates in a battle between the Huron and Iroquois, shooting and killing two Iroquois chiefs; this helps set the tone for French–Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.
  • August 25 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian officials.[3]
  • August 28 – Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.[2][4]
  • August – Seven ships arrive at the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, with 200–300 men, women, and children, reporting the Sea Venture wrecked near Bermuda.
  • September 2 – Henry Hudson enters New York Bay, aboard the Halve Maen.
  • September 10 – Jamestown: Capt. George Percy replaces Captain John Smith as president of the Council, and Smith returns to England.
  • September 11 – Valencia expels all the Moriscos (see April 4).
  • September 11–12 – Henry Hudson in the Halve Maen sails into Upper New York Bay,[5] and begins a journey up the Hudson River.[6]
  • October 12 – A version of the rhyme Three Blind Mice is published in London.[7] The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.[8]

Date unknown[]

  • The Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe.
  • The Dutch East India Company establishes a trading post in Hirado, Japan.
  • The Scrooby Congregation of Protestant English Separatists (predecessors of the Pilgrim Fathers) moves from Amsterdam to Leiden.
  • Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland.[9]
  • The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines is founded.
  • The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish Highlands.
  • The Douay–Rheims Bible Old Testament translation from the Vulgate into English vol. 1 is published in Reims.
  • English-born Sister Mary Ward founds the Sisters of Loreto at Saint-Omer, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia nova.[10]
  • Cornelis Drebbel invents the thermostat.
  • "Egyptians" (i.e., Romany people) are expelled from the Kingdom of Scotland.

Births[]

John Suckling
Judith Leyster
Paul Fleming
Josias von Rantzau

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 6 – Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, second and eldest surviving son of Walter Aston (d. 1678)
  • April 15 – Richard Winwood, English politician (d. 1688)
  • May 6 – Antonie Waterloo, Flemish painter (d. 1690)
  • May 10 – Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and through marriage countess of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1674)
  • June 2 – Zsófia Bosnyák, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1644)
  • June 17 – John of Hesse-Braubach, German general (d. 1651)
  • June 29 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)

July–September[]

  • July 17 – Wilhelm Gumppenberg, German Jesuit theologian (d. 1675)
  • July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)[14]
  • July 29 – Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1660)
  • August 6 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
  • August 21 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (d. 1650)
  • August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (d. 1685)
  • August 30
    • Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
    • Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
  • September 3 – Raymond Breton, French missionary (d. 1679)
  • September 19 (or 1605) – Thomas Gouge, English minister (d. 1681)

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

Probable[]

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1663)

Deaths[]

Isabelle de Limeuil
Annibale Carracci
John Leonardi
Jacobus Arminius

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

References[]

  1. ^ Muhammad Riaz (1992). Serials Management in Libraries. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 5. ISBN 978-81-7156-332-6.
  2. ^ a b Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-680-7.
  3. ^ Kenneth R. Lang (March 3, 2011). The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-139-49417-5.
  4. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 238–243. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ Nevius, Michelle; James (September 8, 2008). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  6. ^ Juet, Robert (1625). "Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage". In Purchas, Samuel (ed.). Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes. Vol. 4.
  7. ^ In Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie.
  8. ^ Opie, Iona; Peter (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 306. ISBN 0-19-860088-7.
  9. ^ Jerzy Jan Lerski; George J. Lerski; Halina T. Lerski (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-313-26007-0.
  10. ^ Alexandre Koyré (January 1, 1992). The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus, Kepler, Borelli. Courier Corporation. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-486-27095-1.
  11. ^ University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Graduate College (1953). Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations. University of Nebraska. p. 136.
  12. ^ Richard Lawrence Ollard (1988). Clarendon and His Friends. Atheneum. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-689-11731-2.
  13. ^ Encyclopedia Americana: Franco to Goethals. Scholastic Library Pub. 2006. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.
  14. ^ Frima Fox Hofrichter (1989). Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age. Davaco. p. 13. ISBN 978-90-70288-62-4.
  15. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. AMS Press. 1968. p. 594.
  16. ^ Robert Chase (September 8, 2004). Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-585-47162-4.
  17. ^ Hugo Grotius (1995). Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae AC Westfrisiae Pietas (1613): Critical Edition with English Translation and Commentary. BRILL. p. 16. ISBN 90-04-10385-6.
  18. ^ D. L. Kirkpatrick (1991). Reference Guide to English Literature: Introductions ; Writers A-G. St. James Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-55862-078-0.
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