1610 to 1619

1610

x - A Dutch East India Company ship brings lacquer furniture to Holland, thus introducing a demand for it.
jan 07 - observes three bright little stars near Jupiter; by jan 15 he has figured out that there are four satellites of Jupiter.
mar - Galileo publishes Sidereus nuncius
apr - Johannes Kepler sends a letter in support of Galileo's discoveries. It is published in Prauge as "Conversation with the Sidereal Messenger".
jul - Galileo is appointed for life "Chief Mathematician of the University of Pisa and Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke" of Tuscany.
x - Galileo first observes the strange appearances of Saturn.
sep - Galileo moves from Padua to Florence.
x - Kepler verifies the existence of the satellites of Jupiter.
dec - Galileo verifies that Venus goes through phases like the Moon. This falsifies the Ptolemaic System and shows that Venus goes around the Sun, in conformance with the Copernican System.
x - Thomas Harriot makes his first record of an observation of sunspots.

1611

x - goes to Rome to show the Jesuits his discoveries.
x - The of the bible, which had been commissioned by the British King in 1604 is completed.
x - 's A Winters Tale * and Henry VIII *
x - |Germany| Johannes Fabricius publishes the first book on sunspots, Narration on spots observed on the Sun and their apparent rotation with the Sun
sep - Kepler's Dioptrice published in Augsburg.
x - English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster

1612

x - Matthias becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
x - Kepler becomes the mathematician to the states of upper Austria.
x - Shakespeare's [b.d.] The Tempest *

1613

feb 07 - |Russia +| Mikhail Romanov +, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty was elected by the other Boyars. [u.1645] [re.List of Tsars] The Romanaz dynasty ruled for more than 300 years.
x - Sir Thomas Dale, the governor of Virginia, hires mercenaries to try and drive the French out of Acadia.
mar - History and Demonstrations about Sunspots and their Properties, containing the three letters by Galileo is published by the Lincean Academy in Rome.

1614

x - Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
x - Japanese shogun Iyeyasu orders that all Christian priests leave Japan, and that the Japanese give up Christianity.

1616

apr 23 - dies. [b.]
feb - A committee of consultants declares to the Inquisition that the proposition that the Sun is the center of the universe is absurd in philosophy and formally heretical and that the proposition that the Earth has an annual motion is absurd in philosophy and at least erroneous in theology.

1617

x - Louis XIII crowned at the age of 17
x - Ferdinand II becomes King of Bohemia.

1618

Paperback 9.75 Everyday Life in Early America

oct,nov - Three comets appear, the third one very bright.
x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Bohemian Period; Irratation of protestant Bohemians against catholic rulers. [u.1625]

1619

x - First representative assembly in America held in Jamestown.
x - The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
x - Ferdinand II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Emperor Ferdinand II, together with Bavaria and the Holy League goes to war with Bohemia.
x - |Thirty Years' War| Ferdinand of Bohemia is rejected by the Bohemian nobles and replaced with Fredrick V.
x - |Status| The Dutch had set up a whaling industry on Amsterdam Island.
jun - June Mario Guiducci, a pupil of Galileo's, delivers a lecture on the comets in which he argues against the Jesuit interpretation of these bodies. The lecture, written largely by , is published under the title Discourse on the Comets. By Mario Guiducci. Delivered at the Florentine Academy during his Term as Consul.