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1610 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
•  May 14, 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
•  July 4, 1610 – The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
•  July 5, 1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
•  August 2, 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
•  October 17, 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.

•  January 13, 1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
•  March 4, 1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
•  April 1, 1610 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703)
•  April 22, 1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
•  May 18, 1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
•  July 14, 1610 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
•  October 19, 1610 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
•  December 9, 1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
•  December 12, 1610 – Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
•  December 18, 1610 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (d. 1688)