1609

Years:
1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612

Decades:
1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1609 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1609 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, published in Augsburg, Germany.
February 4 – According to the Japanese lunar calendar, last day of Keichō 慶長 13
April 4 – Felipe III (Phillip III), King of Spain, signs an edict of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain (See September 11).
April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence
May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia.
July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty)
August 25 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of Jupiter.
August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
September 2 - Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
September 11 – Valencia expels all the Moriscos (see April 4).
September 12 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
October 12 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.

Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France.
The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo.
The Douay Rheims bible is published in England.
Bermuda is first settled, by English shipwreck victims en route to Virginia.
The Netherlands and Spain agree to the Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War
Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe
Japanese clan of Shimazu conquers Okinawa
Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland

February 10 - John Suckling, English poet (died 1642)
February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman (died 1674)
March 22 - John II Casimir of Poland (died 1672)
March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1670)
March 29 - Sarah Boyle, English noblewoman (died 1633)
June 29 - Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died 1680)
August 19 - Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (died 1650)
November 25 - Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (died 1669)
November 26 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (died 1659)
December 24 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (died 1683)
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (died 1663)
John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
Nathaniel Eaton, first schoolmaster of Harvard College (died 1674)
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (died 1641)
Paul Fleming, German poet (died 1640)
Jan Fyt, Belgian animal painter (died 1661)
Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1676)
Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (died 1661)
Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (died 1666)
John Underhill, English soldier and colonist (died 1672)
Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
Lucas d'Achéry, learned French Benedictine (died 1685)