1609 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1609?
- April 5, 1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
- April 9, 1609 – Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
- May 20, 1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- May 23, 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
- July 6, 1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
- July 25, 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- August 25, 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- August 28, 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- September 11, 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
- September 12, 1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- September 13, 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
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