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1610 Historical Event(s)
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.
Who Were Born On 1610?
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 3, 1610
– Gabriel Lallemant, French-born Jesuit missionary (North American Martyrs) (d. 1649)
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)