1610
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s |
| Years: | 1607 1608 1609 – 1610 – 1611 1612 1613 |
| 1610 by topic: | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1610 MDCX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2363 |
| Armenian calendar | 1059 ԹՎ ՌԾԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6360 |
| Bengali calendar | 1017 |
| Berber calendar | 2560 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Ja. 1 – 8 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2154 |
| Burmese calendar | 972 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7118–7119 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4306 or 4246 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4307 or 4247 |
| Coptic calendar | 1326–1327 |
| Discordian calendar | 2776 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1602–1603 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5370–5371 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1666–1667 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1532–1533 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4711–4712 |
| Holocene calendar | 11610 |
| Igbo calendar | 610–611 |
| Iranian calendar | 988–989 |
| Islamic calendar | 1018–1019 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 15 (慶長１５年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3943 |
| Minguo calendar | 302 before ROC 民前302年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2152–2153 |
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1610 (MDCX) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1610th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 610th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1610s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1610 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. It has been posited that 1610 marks the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system.[1][2]
Events
January–June
- January 6 – Nossa Senhora da Graça incident – a Portuguese carrack sinks near Nagasaki after fighting Japanese samurai for four nights.
- January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, but is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- May 14 – François Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France.
- May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (winter), the fort palisadoes and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
- May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
- May 27 – Regicide François Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève, Paris.
- June 7 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
- June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ("Delaware") at Mulberry Island.
- June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.
July–December
- July 4 – Polish–Muscovite War: Battle of Klushino – The outnumbered forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth defeat the combined Russian and Swedish army. Polish troops go on to occupy Moscow.
- July 5 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- July 9 – Lady Arbella Stuart, a claimant to the throne of England, is imprisoned for clandestinely marrying William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant, without royal permission on June 22.[3]
- August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term "Paspahegh" in documents refers to their former territory.
- August 21 – The Tuscans fight the Turks.
- October 10 – The Tuscans fight the Turks again.
- October 17 – Louis XIII of France is crowned.
- Winter – Dr. Bonham's Case is decided by Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of England. Coke affirms the supremacy of the common law, which limits the power of Parliament as well as the king.
Date unknown
- The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming dynasty of China, then under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing dynasty which overthrows the short-lived Shun dynasty in 1644 and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.
- The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
- Completion of publication of the Douay–Rheims Bible (The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English), a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.[4]
- Jakob Böhme experiences another inner vision in which he further understand the unity of the cosmos and that he has received a special vocation from God.
- Work starts on the Wignacourt Aqueduct in Malta.
Jacob Kettler born 28 October
Births
January–March
- January 2 – Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (d. 1674)
- January 9 – George Wilde, Irish bishop (d. 1665)
- January 10 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (d. 1686)
- January 12 – Reinhold Curicke, jurist and historian from Danzig (Gdańsk) < (d. 1667)
- January 13 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
- January 21 – Elizabeth Fones, American settler (d. 1673)
- January 26 – Henry Hildyard, MP (d. 1674)
- February 2
- Pierre Bourdelot, French physician (d. 1685)
- Edmund Weaver, English politician (d. 1672)
- February 11 – Salomon Idler, Inventor (d. 1669)
- February 13 – Jean de Labadie, 17th-century French pietist (d. 1674)
- February 14 – Solomon Swale, English politician (d. 1678)
- March 1 – John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
- March 3 – Pierre Dupuis, French painter (d. 1682)
- March 4 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
- March 14
- Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1662)
- Simon Louis, Count of Lippe-Detmolt (1627–1636) (d. 1636)
April–June
- April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (d. 1703)
- April 22 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
- April 23 – Lettice Boyle, English noblewoman (d. 1657)
- May 12 – Arent Berntsen, Norwegian statistician (d. 1680)
- May 17 – Joseph Poncet, French missionary (d. 1675)
- May 18 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
- June 1 – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter (d. 1670)
- June 24 – Thomas Hales, Connecticut settler (d. 1678)
July–September
- July 2 – Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu in the Peerage of England (d. 1682)
- July 6 – Hugh Forth, English politician (d. 1676)
- July 8 (bapt.) – Richard Deane, English military commander and regicide (d. 1653)
- July 11 – William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, English landowner, politician (d. 1651)
- July 14 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
- July 18 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian (d. 1686)
- July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (d. c.1643)
- July 30 – Lorens von der Linde, Swedish field marshal (d. 1670)
- August 2 – Edward Master, English politician (d. 1691)
- August 4 – Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
- August 23 – Susanna Margarete of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1663)
- September 4 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1670)
- September 6
- Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (d. 1658)
- Luke Robinson, English politician (d. 1669)
- David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, Scottish earl (d. 1679)
- September 10 – Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (d. 1688)
- September 24 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (d. 1695)
- September 28 – Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, English Royalist army commander in the English Civil War (d. 1667)
- September 29 – Gabriel Druillettes, French missionary (d. 1681)
October–December
- October 3 – Gabriel Lalemant, Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646 (d. 1649)
- October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier, the governor of the Louis (d. 1690)
- October 19 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
- October 28 – Jacob Kettler (d. 1682)
- November 8 – Pietro Vidoni, Catholic cardinal (d. 1681)
- November 20 – Henry Heyman, English politician (d. 1658)
- November 22 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (d. 1684)
- November 28 – Augustine Warner (d. 1674)
- December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer (d. 1680)
- December 10 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
- December 12 – Basil of Ostrog, Serbian Orthodox bishop venerated as Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
- December 15 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist born in Antwerp (d. 1690)
- December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688)
- December 25
- David Christiani, Mathematician and philosopher (d. 1688)
- Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, son of Charles Howard (d. 1681)
- date unknown
- Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. 1682)
- Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (d. 1664)
- Reinhold Curicke, jurist and historian of Danzig (d. 1667)
- Li Yu, Chinese writer (d. 1680)
- François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (d. 1683)
- Emmanuel Tzanes, Greek painter (d. 1690)
- probable
- George Carteret, Jersey-born English Royalist statesman (d. 1680)
- Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (d. 1666)
- Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (d. 1688)
- Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (d. 1661)
Deaths
Henry IV of France died 14 May
Thomas Tesdale died 13 June
Caravaggio died 18 July
January–March
- January 1
- Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, Cardinal (b. 1551)
- François Feuardent, French theologian (b. 1539)
- January 9 – Herman van der Mast, Dutch Renaissance painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1550)
- February 4 – Hannibal Vyvyan, English politician (b. 1545)
- February 5 – Strange Jørgenssøn, Norwegian businessman (b. 1539)
- February 22 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (b. 1552)
- February 27 – Philippe Canaye, French diplomat (b. 1551)
- March 6 – Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (b. 1535)
- March 7 – Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg, German abbess (b. 1571)
- March 19 – Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539)
- March 20 – Princess Anna Maria of Sweden, Swedish royal (b. 1545)
- March 24 – Henry Cocke, English politician (b. 1538)
- March 28 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (b. 1546)
- March 30 – Thomas Gorges, English knight (b. 1536)
April–June
- April 15 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
- April 24 – Anna of Holstein-Gottorp, German noblewoman (b. 1575)
- May 11 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1552)
- May 14 – King Henry IV of France, (assassinated) (b. 1553)
- May 17 – Gervase Babington, English churchman (b. 1549)
- May 19 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
- May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
- June 13 – Thomas Tesdale, English maltster (b. 1547)
July–September
- July – Richard Knolles, English historian (b. 1545)
- July 14 – Francis Solanus, Spanish friar and missionary in South America (b. 1549)
- July 17 – Amandus Polanus, German writer (b. 1561)
- July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter active in Rome (b. 1571)
- July 22 – Charles I, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1540)
- July 27 – Jacob Floris van Langren, Dutch cartographer and globe-maker (b. 1525)
- August 20 – Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (b. 1551)
- August 25 – Mabel Browne, Countess of Kildare, Irish noble (b. 1536)
- September 13 – Tomás de Borja y Castro, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1551)
- September 19 – Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (b. 1574)
October–December
- October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
- November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
- November 24 – Duchess Sophie of Prussia, Duchess consort of Courland (1609–1610) (b. 1582)
- December 3 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (b. 1548)
- December 10 – John Roberts, Welsh Benedictine monk and priest (b. 1577)
- December 11
- Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in Rome who died at only thirty-two (b. 1578)
- False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
- December 21 – Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539)
- December 31 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)
- date unknown
- Joachim Lubomirski, Polish nobleman
- Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Keralan mathematician and astronomer (b. c.1500)
- Barbara Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1566)
- probable
- Peter Bales, English calligrapher (b. 1547)
- Girolamo Diruta, Italian organist (b. 1554)
References
- ↑ "Anthropocene: New dates proposed for the 'Age of Man'". BBC. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ "Defining the Anthropocene". Nature. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 170–172. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Pope, Hugh (July–October 1910). "The Origin of the Douay Bible". The Dublin Review (London) 147 (294-295).
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