1609

This article is about the year 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 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1609 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1609 MDCIX
Ab urbe condita	2362
Armenian calendar	1058 ԹՎ ՌԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6359
Bahá'í calendar	-235–-234
Bengali calendar	1016
Berber calendar	2559
English Regnal year	6 Ja. 1 – 7 Ja. 1
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
- Vikram Samvat	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
Minguo calendar	303 before ROC 民前303年
Thai solar calendar	2152

January 15: Avisa newspaper.

August 25: Galileo Galilei.

Year 1609 (MDCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, is published in Augsburg, Germany.
• January 31 Bank of Amsterdam established.
• 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.

Date unknown

• 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 Douay-Rheims Bible Old Testament vol. 1 is published.
• The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines was founded.
• The Dutch East India Company establishes a trading post in Hirado, Japan
• Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova.
• Hugo Grotius publishes Mare liberum.
• Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.

Births

• 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
  • Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (d. 1672)
  • Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (d. 1661)
  • Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (d. 1666)
  • Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (d. 1676)
  • Luc d'Achery, French Benedictine (d. 1685)
• 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
  • Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1544)
  • Barnabe Barnes, English poet (b. 1568)