1609

Year 1609 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - One of the world's first newspapers,, is published in , Germany.
 * - According to the, last day of.
 * March - : The and  agree to a 12-year  (1609-) in the.
 * - Felipe III, King of Spain, signs an edict of expulsion of all s from Spain (See September 11).
 * - recognizes  independence.
 * - Official ratification of the Second Charter of, which is intended to replace the council with a Virginia Governor who has absolute control in the colony.

July - December

 * - is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty).
 * - : A hurricane at sea separates the 9 ships (600 more settlers) en route, one ship sinks, and the ship  wrecks at.
 * - is first settled, by survivors of the English, en route to.
 * - demonstrates his first  to Venetian lawmakers.  He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of, after the manner of the ancient ians who named the stars (astro-nomers), at the  temple, over 2000 years earlier.
 * - is the first European to see.
 * August - : Seven ships arrive at the colony, with 200-300 men, women, and children, reporting that the Sea Venture wrecked near.
 * - enters  aboard the Halve Maen.
 * - : Capt. replaces Captain  as president of the Council, and  returns to England.
 * – expels all the s (see ).
 * - discovers the.
 * - "" is published by  teenage songwriter.

Undated

 * The greatest witch-hunt in history:
 * claims the area of  for.
 * The first published s in English are published by.
 * publishes his first, Orfeo.
 * The is published in.
 * imports to Europe.
 * ese clan of conquers.
 * becomes the capital of.
 * Many Puritans, conservative English Protestants, settle in Leiden, Holland, in search of religious freedom.
 * The were passed. This marked the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the.

Science

 * publishes his first two in Astronomia Nova.
 * - Mare liberum.
 * invents the.

Births

 * -, English poet (d. )
 * -, English historian and statesman (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * -, English noblewoman (d. )
 * (or 1610) -, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. )
 * -, French engineer and canal builder (d. )
 * -, French poet and tragedian (d. )
 * -, German poet (d. )
 * -, English physician (d. )
 * -, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. )
 * -, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. )
 * -, queen of (d. )
 * -, first President of Harvard College (d. )
 * -, English writer and politician (d. )
 * date unknown
 * , English miniature painter (d. )
 * , Austrian composer (d. )
 * , Danish statesman (d. )
 * , English soldier and colonist (d. )
 * , English Protestant religious reformer (d. )
 * , learned French Benedictine (d. )
 * probable -, French novelist and dramatist (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, French Protestant scholar (born )
 * - (born )
 * March - (born c)
 * -, English poet (born c)
 * -, Persian physician
 * -, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. )
 * -, Flemish botanist (born )
 * -, Scottish statesman (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born )
 * -, Italian painter (born )
 * -, Italian painter (born )
 * -, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born c)
 * -, Dutch Reformed theologian (born )
 * -, Scottish poet (born )
 * date unknown
 * , Japanese nobleman (born )
 * , English poet (born )


 * See also .