1610

Year 1610 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - discovers the s of.
 * – troops under  take.
 * – assassinates.
 * - : Acting as temporary Governor,, along with John Rolfe, Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find 60 have survived the "starving time" (during winter): the fort es and gates are torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
 * - : The temporary Governor,, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
 * - Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the.
 * - : Temporary Governor decides to abandon Jamestown.
 * - : Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meet the ships of Governor ("") at.
 * - Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.

July - December



 * - sets sail from  with 39 other colonists for.
 * - sails into what it is now known as, thinking he had made it through the  and reached the.
 * - 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: subsequent use of term "Paspahegh" in documents refers to their former territory.
 * - fight.
 * - Tuscans fight Turks again.
 * - Coronation of.

Undated

 * is the first to observe s by.




 * captures, just to lose it again to n and troops.
 * In, , only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter.
 * , pretender to the throne, is imprisoned for marrying.
 * The is discovered by.
 * decided by  of . Coke affirmed the supremacy of the  which limited the power of  as well as the king.

Births

 * - (died )
 * -, English mathematician (died )
 * -, English portraitist and painter (died )
 * -, French soldier and writer (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, English noblewoman (died )
 * -, Italian printmaker (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, French soldier (died )
 * -, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (died )
 * -, Italian castrato (died )
 * -, Dutch painter (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, Flemish artist (died )
 * -, philologist and historian (died )
 * date unknown
 * , jurist and historian of Danzig (died )
 * , soldier, sailor, and regicide (died )
 * , English portrait painter (died )
 * , Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (died )
 * , French mystic (died )
 * , Chinese writer (died )
 * , French Jesuit and historian (died )
 * , French historian (died )
 * , French painter (died )
 * , founder of Rhode Island (died )
 * , Spanish dramatist and historian (died )
 * probable
 * , Scottish Covenanter (died )
 * , English Royalist statesman (died )
 * , Dutch poet (died )
 * , French naval officer (died )
 * , Chinese editor (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, English Jesuit priest (born )
 * -, Italian Jesuit priest (born )
 * - King  (assassinated) (born )
 * -, Spanish theologian (b. )
 * -, French assassin of ­ (born )
 * July -, English historian (born )
 * -, Italian artist (born )
 * -, Polish nobleman (born )
 * -, Japanese samurai and warlord (born )
 * -, (born )
 * -, duc de Vendôme (born )
 * -, Japanese soldier (born )
 * -, pretender to the Russian throne
 * -, German mathematician (born )
 * date unknown
 * , Japanese painter (born )
 * , Polish nobleman
 * , Polish noblewoman (born )
 * probable
 * , English calligraphist (born )
 * , Italian organist (born )


 * See also .