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1610

Years: 1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613

Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1610 in literature 1610 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Science 3 Births 4 Deaths

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

Science

• Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry

Births

• April 22 - Pietro Vitto Ottoboni later Pope Alexander VIII

Deaths

• May 14 - King Henry IV of France
• May 27 - Ravaillac, assassin who killed ­Henry IV of France

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