1610

1610 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1610; MDCX
Ab urbe condita	2363
Armenian calendar	1059; ԹՎ ՌԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6360
Balinese saka calendar	1531–1532
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	1531–1532
- Kali Yuga	4710–4711
Holocene calendar	11610
Igbo calendar	610–611
Iranian calendar	988–989
Islamic calendar	1018–1019
Japanese calendar	Keichō 15; (慶長１５年)
Javanese calendar	1530–1531
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3943
Minguo calendar	302 before ROC; 民前302年
Nanakshahi calendar	142
Thai solar calendar	2152–2153
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 1736 or 1355 or 583; — to —; 阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 1737 or 1356 or 584

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1590s; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s;
Years:	1607; 1608; 1609; 1610; 1611; 1612; 1613;

January 7: Galilean moons are first observed.

1610 (MDCX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday 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. As of the start of 1610, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broader consensus, based on high resolution pollution records that show the massive impact of human activity on the atmosphere.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Events[edit]

August 2: Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay.

January–June[edit]

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 palisades 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[edit]

July – Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marian Vespers) are published in Venice.
July 4 – Polish–Muscovite War – Battle of Klushino: The outnumbered forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth defeat the combined Russian and Swedish armies; 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.^[4]
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[edit]

The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming dynasty of China, at this time 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.
Publication is completed 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.^[5]
Jakob Böhme experiences another inner vision, in which he believes that he further understands the unity of the cosmos, and that he has received a special vocation from God.
Work starts on the Wignacourt Aqueduct, in Malta.
Santa Fe, New Mexico is founded as the oldest city in the state.
Approximate date – First shipments of tea to Europe, by the Dutch East India Company.

Births[edit]

Pope Alexander VIII

Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh

Gabriel Lalemant

Jacob Kettler

Adriaen van Ostade

January–March[edit]

January 9 – George Wilde, Irish bishop (d. 1665)
January 10 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (d. 1686)
January 12 – Reinhold Curicke, jurist and historian from Danzig (Gdańsk) < (d. 1667)
January 13 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
January 21 – Elizabeth Fones, American settler (d. 1673)
January 26 – Henry Hildyard, English Member of Parliament (d. 1674)
February 2
- Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (d. 1674)
- Pierre Bourdelot, French physician (d. 1685)
- Edmund Weaver, English politician (d. 1672)
February 11 – Salomon Idler, German inventor (d. 1669)
February 13 – Jean de Labadie, 17th-century French pietist (d. 1674)
February 14 – Solomon Swale, English politician (d. 1678)
March 3 – Pierre Dupuis, French painter (d. 1682)
March 4 (bapt.) – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
March 14
- Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1662)
- Simon Louis, Count of Lippe-Detmolt (1627–1636) (d. 1636)

April–June[edit]

April 22 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
May 12 – Arent Berntsen, Norwegian statistician (d. 1680)
May 17 – Joseph Poncet, French missionary (d. 1675)
May 18 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
June 1 – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter (d. 1670)
June 17 – Birgitte Thott, Danish scholar, writer and translator (b. 1662)
June 24 – Thomas Hales, Connecticut settler (d. 1679)

July–September[edit]

July 2 – Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu in the Peerage of England (d. 1682)
July 6 – Hugh Forth, English politician (d. 1676)
July 8 (bapt.) – Richard Deane, English military commander and regicide (d. 1653)
July 11 – William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, English landowner, politician (d. 1651)
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)
July 30 – Lorens von der Linde, Swedish field marshal (d. 1670)
August 2 – Edward Master, English politician (d. 1691)
August 4 – Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
August 23 – Susanna Margarete of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1663)
September 4 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1670)
September 6
- Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (d. 1658)
- Luke Robinson, English politician (d. 1669)
- David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, Scottish earl (d. 1679)
September 10 – Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (d. 1688)
September 24 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (d. 1695)
September 28 – Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, English Royalist army commander in the English Civil War (d. 1666)
September 29 – Gabriel Druillettes, French missionary (d. 1681)