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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1608 1609 1610 – 1611 – 1612 1613 1614

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February - Sunspots seen.

Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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February 27 – Johannes Fabricius (and David Fabricius) discover sunspots.
March 9 – Yemana Kristos, brother of Emperor Susenyos, ends the rebellion of Melka Sedeq in the Battle of Segaba in Begemder.
April 28 – The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).
April 4 – Denmark declares war on Sweden, then captures Kalmar.
May 2 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
May 9 – Sixteen-year-old Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
June – The English explorer and sea captain Henry Hudson, his teenage son John, and six crewmen are set adrift in or near Hudson Bay after a mutiny. They are never seen again.

August 2 – Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
September – Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
October 30 – Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.

Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.

February 12 – Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
February 26 – Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
March 5 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
July 26 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
August 2 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
August 27 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. c. 1548)
October 3 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
October 30 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
date unknown
- Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
- Henry Hudson, explorer
- Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, Turkish beylerbey
- Antoni Clarassó i Terès, Spanish priest

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