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| Years: 1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613 | |
| Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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Events
- January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
- March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow
- May 13-14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France
- July 5 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe sunspots telescopically.
- Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
- In Jamestown, Virginia, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter and they may have to rely on cannibalism
- Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
- Arabella Stuart, pretender to the English throne, imprisoned for marrying William Seymour
- The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
Science
- Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry
Births
- Li Yu, Chinese writer (died 1680)
- January 13 - Maria Anna of Austria (died 1665)
- March 1 - John Pell, English mathematician (died 1685)
- April 1 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (died 1703)
- April 22 - Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)
- April 23 - Lettice Boyle, English noblewoman (died 1657)
- May 18 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (died 1664)
- July 14 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1670)
- October 6 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (died 1690)
- October 19 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (died 1688)
- December 9 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer (died 1680)
- December 12 - Saint Vasilije (died 1671)
- December 15 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (died 1690)
- Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, philologist and historian (died 1688)
- Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (died 1681)
- George Carteret, English Royalist statesman (died 1680)
- Raynold Curicke, jurist and historian of Danzig (died 1667)
- Richard Deane, soldier, sailor, and regicide (died 1653)
- Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)
- William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646)
- Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (died 1688)
- Jean de Labadie, French mystic (died 1674)
- Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit and historian (died 1686)
- François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
- Pierre Mignard, French painter (died 1695)
- Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (died 1685)
- Philip Sherman, founder of Rhode Island (died 1687)
- Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian (died 1686)
Deaths
- April 15 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (born 1546)
- May 11 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest whose missionary activity in China during the Ming Dynasty marked the beginning of modern Chinese Christianity (born 1552)
- May 14 - King Henry IV of France (born 1553)
- May 27 - François Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)
- July 18 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (born 1573)
- October 14 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1540)
- November 2 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1544)
- November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (born 1518)
- December 3 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (born 1548)
- December 31 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (born 1540)
- Peter Bales, English calligraphist (born 1547)
- Girolamo Diruta, Italian organist (born 1554)
- Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (born 1539)
- False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
- Richard Knolles, English historian (born 1545)
- Joachim Lubomirski, Polish nobleman
- Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish poet (born 1545)
- Stanislaw Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (born 1551)
- Barbara Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (born 1566)af:1610
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