Explore 150 historical events from 1600–1609.
García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru. He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete". Belonging t…
García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete (born 1535)
Costanzo Porta was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a c…
Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (born 1528)
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar
Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay was a French statesman.
Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1685)
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi…
Virginia colonists finish building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Native American attacks
Shimazu Tadatsune was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom.…
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of th
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and …
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1536)
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell was an English peer. He was the son of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell by his wife Mary, daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester …
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, Governor of Lecale (born 1560)
The Second Virginia Charter, also known as the Charter of 1609, is a document that provided "a further Enlargement and Explanation of the said [first] Grant, Privileges, and Libert…
Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place
The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast was named Vi…
The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath. He was bo…
Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
Shimazu Tadatsune was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom.…
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of th
William Shakespeare wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first …
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe
The Second Virginia Charter, also known as the Charter of 1609, is a document that provided "a further Enlargement and Explanation of the said [first] Grant, Privileges, and Libert…
Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place
Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown rule…
Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
Sea Venture was an English sailing ship that was part of the flotilla for the Third Supply mission to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. She was the 300-ton flagship of the London Compa…
The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent…
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United Sta…
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
Judith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries but largely forgotten after her de…
Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (died 1660)
Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle E…
Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1675)
The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America througho…
Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on…
Jan Fijt, Jan Fijt or Johannes Fijt was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and etcher. One of the leading still life and animaliers of the 17th century, he was known for his re…
Jan Fyt, Flemish painter (died 1661)
Giovanni Croce was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other tha…
Giovanni Croce, Italian composer and educator (born 1557)
García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru. He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete". Belonging t…
García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete (born 1535)
Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff was a Dutch admiral of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, notable for his voyage to Asia between 1607 and 1612.
Pieter Willemsz
Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico, Annibale was one of the progenito…
Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1560)
Sergeant Major General Sir Francis Vere was an English army officer and politician who served during the reign of Elizabeth I and fought mainly in the Low Countries during the Angl…
Francis Vere, English governor and general
Thomas Thorpe was an English publisher, most famous for publishing Shakespeare's sonnets and several works by Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. His publication of the sonnets has…
Thomas Thorpe published the first copies of Shakespeare's sonnets, possibly without William Shakespeare's consent
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath. He was bo…
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
O'Doherty's Rebellion, also called O'Dogherty's Revolt, was an uprising against the Crown authorities in western Ulster, Ireland. Sir Cahir O'Doherty, lord of Inishowen, a Gaelic c…
In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
Nationalization is the process of transforming privately owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationaliza…
A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer
The Protestant Union, also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states. It was forme…
The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and …
The Colony of Virginia gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea"
Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent …
Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting for
Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459 and the Quebec City census metropolitan area had a populat…
Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.