1609
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s |
| Years: | 1606 1607 1608 – 1609 – 1610 1611 1612 |
| 1609 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1609 (MDCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1609
January 15: Avisa newspaper.
January–June
- January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, is published in Augsburg, Germany.
- February 4 – The last day of Keichō 慶長 13 (according to the Japanese lunar calendar).
- March – Twelve Years' Truce: The Netherlands and Spain agree to a 12-year ceasefire (1609–1621) in the Eighty Years' War.
- April 4 – Felipe III (Philip III), King of Spain, signs an edict to expel of all moriscos from Spain (see September 11).
- April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence.
- May 23 – The Second Charter of Virginia is officially ratified, which is intended to replace the council with a Governor who has absolute control in the colony.
July–December
- July 6 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty).
- July 23 – Jamestown: A hurricane at sea separates the 9 ships (600 more settlers) en route, one ship sinks, and the ship Sea Venture wrecks at Bermuda.
- July 28 – Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
- 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 lawmakers.
- August 28 – Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
- August – Jamestown: Seven ships arrive at the colony, with 200–300 men, women, and children, reporting that 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 12 – Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River aboard the Halve Maen.
- October 12 – "Three Blind Mice" is published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
Undated
- The greatest witch-hunt in history, the Basque witch trials, is held.
- Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
- The Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe.
- The Japanese Shimazu clan Invades the Ryukyu Islands, making the Ryukyu Kingdom a vassal of Japan.
- Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland.
- The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish highlands.
- The Catholic League (German) is formed.
- The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines was founded.
- The Dutch East India Company establishes a trading post in Hirado, Japan
Science
- Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova.
- Hugo Grotius publishes Mare liberum.
- Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1609 MDCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2362 |
| Armenian calendar | 1058 ԹՎ ՌԾԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -235 – -234 |
| Bengali calendar | 1016 |
| Berber calendar | 2559 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2153 |
| Burmese calendar | 971 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7117 – 7118 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年十一月廿六日 (4245/4305-11-26) — to —
己酉年十二月初六日(4246/4306-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1325 – 1326 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1601 – 1602 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5369 – 5370 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1665 – 1666 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1531 – 1532 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4710 – 4711 |
| Holocene calendar | 11609 |
| Iranian calendar | 987 – 988 |
| Islamic calendar | 1017 – 1018 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 14 (慶長14年) |
| Korean calendar | 3942 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2152 |
- February 10 – John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- February 18 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman (d. 1674)
- March 22 – John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
- March 28 – King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
- March 29 – Sarah Boyle, English noblewoman (d. 1633)
- May 16 (or 1610) – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1641)
- June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
- August 6 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
- August 19 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (d. 1650)
- October 5 – Paul Fleming, German poet (d. 1640)
- October 8 – John Clarke, English physician (d. 1676)
- October 26 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
- November 1 – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1676)
- November 25 – Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
- November 26 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (d. 1659)
- December 24 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
- date unknown
- probable – Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1663)
Deaths
- January 21 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
- February 17 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
- March – James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (b. c. 1537)
- March 9 – William Warner, English poet (b. c. 1558)
- March 22 – Al-Jilani, Persian physician
- March 25 – Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
- April 4 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
- April 8 – Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Scottish statesman (b. 1553)
- May 15 – Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
- July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
- July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1543)
- August 22 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
- October 1 – Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer (b. c. 1532)
- October 19 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian (b. 1560)
- December 4 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560)
- date unknown