1609

events

• 16. June: The painter Adam Elsheimer observes the Firmament over Rome and brings its accurate observations in the picture “the escape afterEgypt " on the canvas.

politics and world happening

• establishment of the catholic league, those under the guidance of the Bavarian cure prince Maximilian I. by Bavaria , to Munich
• the Benediktinerabtei Ellwangen stands acquires Heuchlingen.
• The Protestant noble Böhmens and Schlesiensreach that emperors Rudolf II. them a majesty letter issues, that them the free worship guarantees
• Johannes Kepler publishes the two first Kepler laws in the Astronomia new facts (new astronomy)
• ore duke Albrecht VII. and Isabella appoint Peter Paul Rubens the yard painter
• The Amsterdamer exchange bank based
• Galileo Galilei designed born in Venice its astronomical
• telescope Samuel de Champlain discovers the Champlain lake in
• the USA Henry Hudson, an English sailor, explores the Hudson

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• 18. February: EdwardHyde, 1. Earl OF Clarendon, English statesman and historian († 1674)
• 21. February: Raimund of Montecuccoli, Austrian field gentleman, diplomat and statesman († 1680)
• 18. March: Friedrich III. (Denmark), king of Denmark and Norwayfrom 1648 to 1670 († 1670)
• 21. March: Johann II. Kasimir, king of Poland († 1672)
• 16. May: Kardinalinfant Ferdinand, cardinal and field gentleman in the dreissigjährigen war († 1641)
• 17. June: Johann ofHessen brewing brook, land count and soldier († 1651)
• 29. June: Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer († 1680)
• 29. July: Carlo II. Gonzaga, regent († 1660)
• 5. October: Paul Fleming, German physician and writer(† 1640)
• 18. October: Josias Rantzau, German army leader, marshal of France († 1650)
• 15. November: Henrietta Maria of France, by their marriage with Karl I. the queen of England, Scotland and Ireland († 1669)

died

• 21. January: Joseph Justus Scaliger, French scientist (* 1540)
• 7. February: Ferdinand I. (Toskana), Grand Duke of Toskana and became 1562 cardinal (* 1549)
• 20. May: George Rollenhagen,German writer, paedagogue and Prediger (* 1542)
• 15. July: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (* 1560)
• Hans Vredeman de Vries, Maler (* 1526)