* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

# Sophie of Prussia ( 31 March 1582 – 4 December 1610 ).

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

* Sigebert Buckley ( c 1520 – c 1610 )

** Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 )

** Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )

** Henry III ( 1572 – 1610 )

** Louis II ( 1610 – 1643 )

* Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 )

* Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 ) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.

* 1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato ( d. 1680 )

* 1553 – King Henry IV of France ( d. 1610 )

* Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet ( 1610 – 1644 )

File: Johannes Kepler 1610. jpg | Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 )

** Henry IV the Great, 1589 – 1610

** the Regency of Marie de Medici, 1610 – 1617

** Louis XIII the Just and his minister Cardinal Richelieu, 1610 – 1643

Henry of Navarre was the heir presumptive and now effective King of France, so when he converted to Catholicism he was recognised by both Catholics and Protestants as King Henry IV ( reigned 1589 – 1610 ).

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 – 1774 ( 1999 ), survey by leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search

Image: Pine Trees. jpg | Pine Trees, six sided screen, by Hasegawa Tohaku ( 1539 – 1610 ), Japanese

* 1546 – Robert Parsons, English priest ( d. 1610 )

* 1610 – The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.

In 1610, by which time most Dutch and English ships visited the island on their home voyage, François Pyrard de Laval deplored the deterioration since his last visit in 1601, describing damage to the chapel and destruction of fruit trees by cutting down trees to pick the fruit.

** François Ravaillac, killer of Henry IV of France ( d. 1610 )

* François de Civille ( 1537 – 1610 ), Calvinist's chief under Gabriel, comte de Montgomery

Image: François Spierincx 002. jpg | 1610 tapestry by François Spierincx

# 1610 Henry IV of France by François Ravaillac

François Ravaillac | Ravaillac murdering Henry IV of France | Henry IV, rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris, 1610

François Ravaillac (; 1578 – 27 May 1610 ) was a French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide.

François Eudes de Mézeray ( 1610 – July 10, 1683 ) was a French historian.

Also referred to as " disruption " or being " drawn and quartered ," it could be brought about by chaining four horses to the condemned's arms and legs, thus making them pull him apart, as was the case with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610 and Robert-François Damiens in 1757.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan ( 1610 – 1687 ) was born in Saint-Aignan ( then in the Berry province, now in the Loir-et-Cher département, France ).

One of Mousnier's best known books, L ' Assassinat d ' Henri IV ( The Assassination of Henry IV ) examined the climate of opinion and social context in 1610 France, in which a Catholic fanatic named François Ravaillac assassinated King Henry IV.

Between Pentecost 1609 and May 1610, Ravaillac made three separate trips to Paris to tell his vision to the king, and lodged with Charlotte du Tillet, mistress of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d ' Épernon.

On 14 May 1610, Ravaillac lay in wait in the Rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris ( now south of the Forum des Halles ); when the king passed, his carriage was halted by a blockage in the street, and Ravaillac stabbed Henry to death.

The contrary view, that Ravaillac had no accomplices but his confessors, is expressed by Roland Mousnier in L ' Assassinat d ' Henri IV: 14 mai 1610 ( Paris, 1964 ).

" This legimitization of tyrannicide may have inspired as much the friar Clément, who assassinated Henry III in 1589, as Ravaillac, who assassinated Henry IV in 1610.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

* 1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( b. 1610 )

* 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.

* 1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( d. 1690 )

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

* November 17 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier ( b. 1610 )

* February 2 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer ( b. 1610 )

* October 23 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist ( b. 1610 )

* September 29 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier ( b. 1610 )

* October 6 – Paul Scarron, French writer ( b. 1610 )

* July 10 – François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian ( b. 1610 )

* Henri Dumont ( 1610 – 1684 ), French musician and composer

The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.

The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol began to settle Newfoundland and Labrador at Cuper's Cove as far back as 1610, and Newfoundland had also been the subject of a French colonial enterprise.

French courtier Marin le Bourgeoys made the first firearm incorporating a true flintlock mechanism for King Louis XIII shortly after his accession to the throne in 1610.

The first discovery of the diffuse nebulous nature of the Orion Nebula is generally credited to French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, on 26 November 1610 when he made a record of observing it with a refracting telescope purchased by his patron Guillaume du Vair.

* Abraham Duquesne ( 1610 – 1688 ), general lieutenant of the French Navy

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier ( 6 October 1610 – 17 November 1690 ) was a French soldier and the governor of the dauphin, Louis le Grand Dauphin, the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, King of France.

French observer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc is credited with the discovery of the Orion Nebula in 1610.

Giant of Grand the Siècle: The French Army 1610 – 1715.

** Madeleine Patin, French moralist writer ( born 1610 )