Explore 230 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 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
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
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)
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
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)
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 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
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual …
Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1669)
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
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.
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.
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 arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.
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 begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
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…
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…
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 reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
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)
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)
Sir Alexander Carew was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Antony, Cornwall. Elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall in November 1640, he voted for the execution o…
Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1644)
Artus Quellinus the Elder, Artus Quellinus I or Artus (Arnoldus) Quellijn was a Flemish sculptor. He is regarded as the most important representative of the Baroque in sculpture in…
Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)
Paul Fleming was a German physician and poet.
Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (died 1640)
John Clarke was a New England English-born politician, physician, and Puritan Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its i…
John Clarke, English physician (died 1676)
Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland was a younger son of the 1st Earl of Portland, by his second wife Frances Walgrave. He was born at Nayland in Suffolk, England.
Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (died 1688)
Ernest Günther I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was a Duke of Schleswig-Holstein of its Sonderburg line. He was the first to have his ducal seat in Augustenborg Pala…
Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1689)
Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England. Winstanley was the leader and…
Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
William Sprague left England on the ship Lyon's Whelp for Plymouth/Salem Massachusetts. He was originally from Upwey, near Weymouth, Dorset, England.
William Sprague, English-American settler, co-founded Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
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)