The four moons were discovered sometime between 1609 and 1610 when Galileo made improvements to his telescope, which enabled him to observe celestial bodies more distinctly than had ever been possible before.

This allowed Galilei to discover sometime between December 1609 and January 1610 what came to be known as the Galilean moons.

Additionally, the Statutes of Iona were promulgated in 1609 to force an end to the Clan warfare between the MacLeods of Dunvegan and the MacDonalds of Eigg and Sleat as well as to create a more receptive path for Reformation and Protestantism by forcing the Chiefs of the Clans to encourage its spread and to finance the provisioning of Protestant minsters in their lands.

The area once known as the Turbary of Alberysheved between the River Teign and the headwaters of the River Bovey is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor of 1240 ( by 1609 the name of the area had changed to Turf Hill ).

* War between the Netherlands and Spain recommences after the Twelve Years ' Truce ( 1609 – 1621 ).

Etchemin is only known from a list of numbers from people living between the St. John and Kennebec Rivers recorded in 1609 by Marc Lescarbot.

Captain John Smith of England explored and mapped the bay between 1607 and 1609, which was published in 1612 as A Map of Virginia.

The subsequent Twelve Years ' Truce ( 1609 – 1621 ) between Spain and the Dutch Republic would have ended Standish's service, although scholars are uncertain if Standish was still in active service.

After Henry Hudson returned from his second voyage he related to van Meteren that there had been a mutiny in 1609, originating in quarrels between Dutch and English sailors.

He was a leader of the Virginia Colony ( based at Jamestown ) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.

These drawings of set design and costume reveal an interesting development in Jones ’ s draughtsmanship between 1605 and 1609, initially showing “ no knowledge of Renaissance draughtsmanship ”, then in 1609, exhibiting an “ accomplished Italianate manner ”.

The Carmen Temple is all that remains of the former La Encarnación convent which was founded at in 1597 with the first nuns arriving between 1609 and 1610.

The fishponds were filled between 1586 and 1609, but it was only until the 1660s that plans to cultivate a garden on the land were realised.

One mean estimate of the Moriscos Population in Spain according to various censuses carried out between 1568 and 1609 gives the following populations by region:

At the instigation of the Duke of Lerma and the Viceroy of Valencia, Archbishop Juan de Ribera, Philip III expelled the moriscos from Spain between 1609 ( Valencia ) and 1614 ( Castile ).

It is estimated that in the kingdom of Granada alone, between 10, 000 and 15, 000 Moriscos remained after the general expulsion of 1609.

Old Square and Old Buildings were built between 1525 and 1609, initially running between numbers 1 and 26.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took control of town between 1560 – 1617 ; the Poles and Lithuanians fought the Swedes nearby in 1609.

* Numerous other works published separately or in anthologies, between 1563 and 1609.

However, after surveying the route and digging the first two-mile long stretch, Colthurst encountered financial difficulties and it fell to Myddelton to complete the work between 1609 and its official opening on 29 September 1613.

Based on a drawing by Samuel de Champlain from his 1609 voyage, this engraving depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian peoples | Algonquian tribes near the southern end of Lake Champlain.

Carillon, located near the southern end of Lake Champlain, occupied a place that was strategic in importance even before Samuel de Champlain discovered it in 1609, controlling access to a key portage trail between Champlain and Lake George along the main travel route between the Hudson River valley and the Saint Lawrence River.

In 1614 – 1615, Musashi participated in the war between the Toyotomi and the Tokugawa.

The settlement, outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory ( 1614 – 1664 ), was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude and was a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624.

Epidemics of smallpox ( 1518, 1521, 1525, 1558, 1589 ), typhus ( 1546 ), influenza ( 1558 ), diphtheria ( 1614 ) and measles ( 1618 ) swept ahead of initial European contact, killing between 10 million and 20 million people, up to 95 % of the indigenous population of the Americas.

The town is named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen Mey who explored and charted the area between 1611 – 1614, and established a claim for the province of New Netherland.

He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644.

The Addled Parliament was the second Parliament of England of the reign of James I of England ( following his 1604-11 Parliament ), which sat between 5 April and 7 June 1614.

The practice became more common during the 17th century — 11 people were made Benchers between 1600 and 1630 — and in 1614 one of the Benchers appointed was explicitly allowed to be a member of Pension.

The States-General again met in Paris in 1614, on the occasion of the disturbances that followed the death of Henry IV ; however, though their minutes bear witness to their sentiments of exalted patriotism, dissensions between the three orders rendered them weak.

Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( 29 March 1584 – 14 March 1648 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1648.

He served as member of the English parliament for Boroughbridge during the six parliaments which met between 1614 and 1629 and also during the Short Parliament of 1640.

The Treaty of Xanten, which had ended the War of the Jülich succession between Brandenburg and the count palatines in 1614, had partitioned the once united Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg among the bellingerents, and Jülich-Berg was since ruled by the Catholic counts of Palatinate-Neuburg.

The personal influence of Henry IV had deterred Bassompierre from a marriage with Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of the constable Montmorency, afterwards princesse de Condé, and between 1614 and 1630 he was secretly married to Louise Marguerite, widow of François, prince de Conti, and through her became implicated in the plot to overthrow Richelieu on the " Day of the Dupes " ( 1630 ).

* William Pitt ( courtier ) ( 1559 – 1636 ), English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625

The young French translator, Étienne Brûlé, was the first European to set foot in the Penetanguishene area, some time between 1610 and 1614.

Today one still can see the impressive earthen embankments and most of the moats which were constructed between 1614 and 1618 for defense purposes.

In 1602, the troops of Gergely Németh put on fire the remaining houses of the town, therefore, in 1602 the reconstruction of the fortress was started further the advice of mayor Tamás Borsos, but it was actually built between 1614 and 1653.

Adriaen ( Aerjan ) Block ( c. 1567 – April 27, 1627 ( buried )) was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson.

His expansive but incomplete treatise, Syntagma Musicum, appeared in three volumes ( with appendix ) between 1614 and 1620.

The area between the 38th and 40th parallels ( i. e., the Delaware Bay area ) as well as the Delaware River from north to south had previously been surveyed and charted by Cornelis Hendricksz from Monnikendam on the ship " Onrust " in 1614, 1615 and 1616.

Re-entering the area in 1614, Spanish forces attacked the Calusa as part of a war between the Calusa and Spanish-allied tribes around Tampa Bay.

Peter Easton ( c. 1570 – 1620 or after ) was a pirate in the early 17th century who operated along the Newfoundland coastline between Harbour Grace and Ferryland from 1611 to 1614.

François de Bourbon ( 1558 – 1614 ), the third son of this marriage, was given the title of marquess of Conti, and between 1581 and 1597 was elevated to the rank of prince of Conti.

During the 1614 event, whose epicenter was located along the Lajes fault eight kilometers offshore, recorded magnitudes for the earthquake were between 5. 8 and 6. 3 on the Richeter scale ( Wells and Coppersmith, 1994 ).