5th April » 'Daimyo' (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Tokugawa Shogunate known as Japan, completes Invasion of Ryukyu called his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
23rd May » Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
6th July » Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
25th July » The England or English ship 'Sea Venture', en route to Colony of Virginia named Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
25th August » Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venice known as Venetian lawmakers.
28th August » Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
11th September » Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
12th September » Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the 'Halve Maen'.
13th September » Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.
Famous Birthdays in 1609
10th February » John Suckling (poet) e.g John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
18th February » Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician (d. 1674)
18th March » Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
22nd March » John II Casimir Vasa, Polish son of Constance of Austria (d. 1672)
6th August » Richard Bennett (Governor) known as Richard Bennett, English politician, List of colonial governors of Virginia e.g Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
26th October » William Sprague (1609–1675) or William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)