1610

This article is about the year 1610.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1610 in other calendars

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

January 7: Galilean moons.

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August 2: Hudson Bay.

Jamestown deaths.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• January 10 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (d. 1686)
• January 13 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
• February 13 – Jean de Labadie, French mystic (d. 1674)
• March 1 – John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
• March 4 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
• 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 18 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
• July 8 (bapt.) – Richard Deane, English military commander and regicide (d. 1653)
• 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)
• September 24 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (d. 1695)
• October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
• October 19 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
• 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 (d. 1690)
• December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d.1688)
• 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

• March 19 – Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539)
• April 15 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
• May 11 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1552)
• May 14 – King Henry IV of France (assassinated) (b. 1553)
• May 19 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• May 27 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• July – Richard Knolles, English historian (b. 1545)
• July 18 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
• August 20 – Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (b. 1551)
• October 14 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
• November 2 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
• December 3 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (b. 1548)
• December 11 – False Dmitry II, pretender to the Russian throne
• 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)