1610

This article is about the year 1610.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1607 1608 1609 – 1610 – 1611 1612 1613

1610 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

1610 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1610 MDCX
Ab urbe condita	2363
Armenian calendar	1059 ԹՎ ՌԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6360
Bahá'í calendar	-234–-233
Bengali calendar	1017
Berber calendar	2560
English Regnal year	7 Ja. 1 – 8 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2154
Burmese calendar	972
Byzantine calendar	7118–7119
Chinese calendar	己酉年十二月初七日 (4246/4306-12-7) — to — 庚戌年十一月十七日 (4247/4307-11-17)
Coptic calendar	1326–1327
Ethiopian calendar	1602–1603
Hebrew calendar	5370–5371
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1666–1667
- Shaka Samvat	1532–1533
- Kali Yuga	4711–4712
Holocene calendar	11610
Iranian calendar	988–989
Islamic calendar	1018–1019
Japanese calendar	Keichō 15 (慶長15年)
Korean calendar	3943
Minguo calendar	302 before ROC 民前302年
Thai solar calendar	2153

January 7: Galilean moons.

August 2: Hudson Bay.

Jamestown deaths.

Year 1610 (MDCX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, but is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
• March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow.
• May 14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France.
• May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (during winter), the fort palizadoes and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
• May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
• May 27 – Francois Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève.
• June 4 – A Polish–Lithuanian army defeats a much larger Russian army at the Battle of Klushino.
• June 7 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
• June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ("Delaware") at Mulberry Island.
• June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.
• June 22 – Arbella Stuart, pretender to the English throne, secretly marries William Seymour; both are later imprisoned for marrying without the king's permission.

July–December

• July 5 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
• August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
• August 9 – Jamestown: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term "Paspahegh" in documents refers to their former territory.
• August 21 – The Tuscans fight the Turks.
• October 10 – The Tuscans fight the Turks again.
• October 17 – Louis XIII of France is crowned.

Date unknown

• Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe sunspots by telescope.
• Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
• In Jamestown, Virginia, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter.
• The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
• Bonham's Case is decided by Edward Coke, chief justice of England's Court of Common Pleas. Coke affirms the supremacy of the common law, which limits the power of Parliament as well as the king.
• By this year, the Portuguese colony of Brazil has either 400 mills producing 57,000 tons of sugar a year, or only 230 mills producing 14,000 tons of sugar a year; accepting either figure depends on which expert you believe is more accurate, according to Alfred W. Crosby Jr. on page 69 of his book The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In any case, the incredible wealth the Portuguese acquire from selling sugar in Europe prompts the English and French to follow suit in this century.
• The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming Dynasty of China, then under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing Dynasty that overthrow the short-lived Shun Dynasty in 1644 and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.
• Publication of the Douay-Rheims Bible is completed.

Births

• January 13 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
• February 13 – Jean de Labadie, French mystic (d. 1674)
• March 1 – John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
• March 4 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
• April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (d. 1703)
• April 22 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
• April 23 – Lettice Boyle, English noblewoman (d. 1657)
• May 18 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
• July 14 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
• July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (d. c.1643)
• October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
• October 19 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
• December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer (d. 1680)
• December 10 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
• December 12 – Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
• December 15 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (d. 1690)
• December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, philologist and historian (d.1688)
• date unknown
  • Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. 1682)
  • Reinhold Curicke, jurist and historian of Danzig (d. 1667)
  • Richard Deane, soldier, sailor, and regicide (d. 1653)
  • Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (d. 1695)
  • Li Yu, Chinese writer (d. 1680)
  • Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit and historian (d. 1686)
  • François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (d. 1683)
  • Philip Sherman, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1687)
  • Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian (d. 1686)
• probable
  • Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (d. 1681)
  • George Carteret, English Royalist statesman (d. 1680)
  • Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (d. 1666)
  • Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (d. 1688)
  • Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (d. 1661)

Deaths

• April 15 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
• May 11 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1552)
• May 14 – King Henry IV of France (assassinated) (b. 1553)
• May 19 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• July – Richard Knolles, English historian (b. 1545)
• July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
• August 20 – Stanislaw Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (b. 1551)
• October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
• November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
• November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (b. 1518)
• December 3 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (b. 1548)
• December 11 – False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
• December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)
• date unknown
  • Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539)
  • Joachim Lubomirski, Polish nobleman
  • Barbara Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1566)
• probable
  • Peter Bales, English calligraphist (b. 1547)
  • Girolamo Diruta, Italian organist (b. 1554)