Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who played a major role in the…
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9 April 1609
Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the “Expulsion of the Moriscos”. The Expulsion of the Moriscos was one of the most significant and…
25 August 1609
Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and polymath often called the “father of modern…
13 September 1609
Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
28 August 1609
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. On Aug. 28, 1609, English navigator Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay. In 1749 German poet, dramatist and philosopher Johann Wolfgang…
9 April 1609
Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to end the Eighty Years’ War.