1609 Details, Meaning 1609 Article and Explanation Guide

1609 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Years: 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1609 in literature 1609 in science

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1 Events
2 Science
3 Births
4 Deaths

April 4 – King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain
April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence
May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
August 25 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of Jupiter
August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
September 11 – Valencia expulses all the Moriscos
October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo.
The Douay 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
Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe
Japanese clan of Shimizu conquers Okinawa
Cornelius Drebbel invents thermostat
Henry Hudson explores Delaware Bay and Hudson River
Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland

Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova
Hugo Grotius - Mare liberum

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