Today in History for Year 1609

Months in Year 1609: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 31st - Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
Mar 12th - Bermuda becomes an English colony
Mar 25th - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
Apr 5th - Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
Apr 9th - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
May 20th - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
May 23rd - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
Jun 17th - Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant
Jul 4th - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the tone of French-Iroquois relations for the next 150 years
Jul 6th - Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
Jul 9th - Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
Jul 10th - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
Jul 20th - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
Jul 28th - Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
Aug 8th - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
Aug 25th - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
Aug 28th - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
Sep 1st - Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies
Sep 4th - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan [or Sep 11]
Astronomer & Physicist Galileo Galilei Sep 11th - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
Oct 12th - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
Dec 8th - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17

Feb 10th - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
Feb 18th - Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)
Mar 16th - Michael Franck, composer
Mar 18th - Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
Mar 21st - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
Mar 22nd - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
May 16th - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
Jul 27th - Heinrich Pape, composer
Jul 28th - Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised
Aug 6th - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
Aug 29th - Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
Aug 30th - Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised
Oct 5th - Paul Fleming, writer
Oct 26th - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
Nov 16th - Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
Nov 26th - Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
Dec 24th - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 15 of 15

Jan 21st - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
Feb 7th - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
Feb 17th - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
Feb 28th - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
Mar 25th - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
Apr 4th - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
May 15th - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
May 26th - Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried
Jul 15th - Annibale Carracci, painter, dies
Jul 20th - Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69
Aug 7th - Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
Aug 22nd - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
Oct 1st - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
Oct 19th - Jacobus Arminius, [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
Dec 4th - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet