1610
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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
- April 22 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
- July 14 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
- December 12 – Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
- December 15 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (d. 1690)
Deaths
- May 14 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- May 27 – Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
- July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
- October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
- November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
- November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (b. 1518)
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