1609 Calendar
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1609 Historical Event(s)
April 5, 1609
– Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
April 9, 1609
– Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
May 20, 1609
– Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
May 23, 1609
– Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
July 6, 1609
– Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
July 25, 1609
– The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
August 25, 1609
– Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
August 28, 1609
– Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
September 11, 1609
– Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain’s Moriscos.
September 12, 1609
– Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
Who Were Born On 1609?
February 10, 1609
– John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
February 18, 1609
– Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674)
March 18, 1609
– King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
March 22, 1609
– King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
August 6, 1609
– Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
October 26, 1609
– William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
November 25, 1609
– Queen Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669)
November 26, 1609
– Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
December 24, 1609
– Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)