1609

1609 (MDCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1609th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 609th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1609, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1609 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1609
MDCIX
Ab urbe condita2362
Armenian calendar1058
ԹՎ ՌԾԸ
Assyrian calendar6359
Balinese saka calendar1530–1531
Bengali calendar1016
Berber calendar2559
English Regnal year6 Ja. 1  7 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2153
Burmese calendar971
Byzantine calendar7117–7118
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4305 or 4245
     to 
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4306 or 4246
Coptic calendar1325–1326
Discordian calendar2775
Ethiopian calendar1601–1602
Hebrew calendar5369–5370
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1665–1666
 - Shaka Samvat1530–1531
 - Kali Yuga4709–4710
Holocene calendar11609
Igbo calendar609–610
Iranian calendar987–988
Islamic calendar1017–1018
Japanese calendarKeichō 14
(慶長14年)
Javanese calendar1529–1530
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3942
Minguo calendar303 before ROC
民前303年
Nanakshahi calendar141
Thai solar calendar2151–2152
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1735 or 1354 or 582
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1736 or 1355 or 583
The Twelve Years' Truce is agreed upon.

Events

January 15: Avisa newspaper begins publication.
August 25: Galileo demonstrates his first telescope.

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

Births

John Suckling
Judith Leyster
Paul Fleming
Josias von Rantzau

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 6 Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, second and eldest surviving son of Walter Aston (d. 1678)
  • April 15 Richard Winwood, English politician (d. 1688)
  • May 6 Antonie Waterloo, Flemish painter (d. 1690)
  • May 10 Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and through marriage countess of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1674)
  • June 2 Zsófia Bosnyák, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1644)
  • June 17 John of Hesse-Braubach, German general (d. 1651)
  • June 29 Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)

JulySeptember

  • July 17 Wilhelm Gumppenberg, German Jesuit theologian (d. 1675)
  • July 28 Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)[14]
  • July 29 Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1660)
  • August 6 Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
  • August 21 Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (d. 1650)
  • August 25 Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (d. 1685)
  • August 30
    • Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
    • Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
  • September 3 Raymond Breton, French missionary (d. 1679)
  • September 19 (or 1605) Thomas Gouge, English minister (d. 1681)

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

  • Luc d'Achery, French Benedictine (d. 1685)
  • Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (d. 1672)
  • Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (d. 1661)
  • Elizabeth Isham, English diarist (d. 1654)
  • Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (d. 1666)
  • Thomas Greene, Colonial governor of Maryland (d. 1651)

Probable

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1663)

Deaths

Isabelle de Limeuil
John Leonardi
Jacobus Arminius

JanuaryMarch

  • January Thomas East, English printer (born c. 1540)
  • January 9 Joannes Bochius, civic officeholder and neo-Latin poet in the city of Antwerp (b. 1555)
  • January 21 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
  • February 17 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
  • February 28 Paul Sartorius, German composer (b. 1569)
  • March James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (b. c. 1537)
  • March 9 William Warner, English poet (b. c. 1558)
  • March 17 Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
  • March 22 Al-Jilani, Persian physician
  • March 25
    • Isabelle de Limeuil, French noble (b. 1535)
    • John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (b. 1562)

AprilJune

  • April 4 Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
  • April 6 Merkelis Giedraitis, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1536)
  • April 8 Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Scottish statesman (b. 1553)
  • April 9 William Overton, English bishop (b. 1525)
  • April 11 John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, English Baron (b. 1533)
  • April 14 Gasparo da Salò (Gasparo Bertolotti), Italian violin maker(b. 1540)
  • May 15 Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
  • May 19
    • Jacob Lorhard, German philosopher (b. 1561)
    • García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete (b. 1535)
  • June 15 Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1544)

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

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