Important Historical Events of the year 1609, Year 1609 in History

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List of 1609 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1609

What happened in the year 1609?

Date	Event
April 4, 1609	Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
April 9, 1609	Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
April 9, 1609	Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
May 5, 1609	Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
May 20, 1609	Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
May 23, 1609	Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
July 9, 1609	Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
July 25, 1609	The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
July 30, 1609	Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
August 25, 1609	Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
August 28, 1609	Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
September 11, 1609	Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.
September 12, 1609	Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
September 13, 1609	Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him