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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s Years: 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 Events May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. July 6 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. August 28 - Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay[?]. Samuel de Champlain claims the Lake Champlain area of Vermont for France. Galileo Galilei is the first to perform observational astronomy with a telescope. The first published rounds in English are published by Thomas Ravenscroft[?]. Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion. Claudio Monteverdi publishes his first opera, Orfeo. The Rheims bible[?] is published in England. Bermuda is first settled, by English shipwreck victims en route to Virginia. Births March 28 - King Frederick III of Denmark November 25 - Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra, later Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland. Deaths January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, protestant scholar Barnabe Barnes, English poet Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years: 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614
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