Major Events
- Jan 7 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede
- Jan 8 German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo
- Jan 13 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
- Mar 21 King James I of England and VI of Scotland addresses English House of Commons
- Apr 17 English explorer Henry Hudson departs London, England aboard Discovery on his fourth, final and fatal voyage to discover a Northwest Passage to the Pacific
- May 14 Henry IV of France is assassinated by fanatical Catholic François Ravaillac who stabs him to death in the streets of Paris
- May 15 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French King
- Jun 10 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
- Jun 10 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
- Jun 19 Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
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German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo
Born in 1610
- Jan 13 Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
- Feb 13 Jean de la Badie, French theologian, founder of Labadists, born in Bourg, Bordeaux, France (d. 1674)
- Mar 1 Johann Balthasar Schupp, German poet and writer, born in Giessen (d. 1661)
- Mar 1 John Pell, British mathematician and diplomat, born in Southwick, Sussex, England (d. 1685)
- Mar 4 William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
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