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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.

Events [edit]

February 27 – Sunspots are observed by telescope by Frisian astronomers Johannes Fabricius and David Fabricius and Johannes publishes the results of these observations in De Maculis in Sole observatis in Wittenberg later this year.^[1] Such early discoveries are overlooked however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.
March 4 – George Abbot is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 – The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, printed by Robert Baker.
May 9 – Sixteen-year-old Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
June 22 – 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 on his ship Discovery. 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, perhaps for the first time.

Uprising in Moscow against occupying Polish forces, resulting in a major fire.
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.
Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London.

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 (last seen) – Henry Hudson, explorer
June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
July 26 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
August – Antoni Clarassó i Terès, Spanish priest
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)
- Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, Turkish beylerbey

^ Thony, C. (2011-01-08). "Spotting the spots". The Renaissance Mathematicus. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-09.

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