1609
Events 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 roundss 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
Science Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova Hugo Grotius - Mare liberum
BirthsMarch 28 - King Frederick III of DenmarkNovember 25 - Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra, later Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland.
DeathsJanuary 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, protestant scholarFebruary 17 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)Barnabe Barnes, English poetFederigo Zuccaro, Italian painter
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