1609 - What happened in 1609 ?


May 1609


Saturday 23:

Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.




July 1609


Monday 06:

Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.




August 1609


Tuesday 25:

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.


Friday 28:

Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.




September 1609


Friday 11:

Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.


Saturday 12:

Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.


Sunday 13:

the Hudson River.




October 1609


Monday 12:

"Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft



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