Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.

* 1609 – Eighty Years ' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.

The end of the line for the Bandanese came in 1609 when the Dutch reinforced Fort Nassau on Bandanaira Island.

Although a Dutch spectacle maker created the compound lens and inserted it in a microscope around the turn of the seventeenth century, and Galileo had applied the principle of the compound lens to the making of his microscope patented in 1609, its possibilities as a microscope had remained unexploited for half a century, until Robert Hooke improved the instrument.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

The Dutch revolted against the Spanish domination during the 1560s, leading to a protracted war of independence that led to a truce only in 1609.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

Some Huguenots fought in the Low Countries alongside the Dutch against Spain during the first years of the Dutch Revolt ( 1568 – 1609 ).

Verrazzano's reputation was particularly obscure in New York City, where the 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson came to be regarded as the de facto start of European exploration of New York, since he sailed for the Dutch, not the French.

Eight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known ; and the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in Bordeaux, 1609, and to England, where it appeared in the form of a parody in 1625.

Henry Hudson, on his expedition for the Dutch West India Company, discovered the Delaware River in 1609.

The land was " discovered " and explored by Henry Hudson in 1609, and over the next several decades it was variously claimed and settled by the Swedes, the Dutch, and the English.

" It was Hendrik Hudson and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel ' Half Moon " who, in 1609, first spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook.

The Dutch claimed it after Henry Hudson ( sailing for the Dutch East India Company ) explored Newark Bay and anchored his ship at Weehawken Cove in 1609.

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.

Some hold that the practice was invented in 1609 by Dutch merchant Isaac Le Maire, a sizeable shareholder of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ( VOC ).

Parts of Wijchen Castle ( Kasteel Wijchen in Dutch ) date from the 14th century, but it took its current Mannerist form in the years 1609 – 1629.

The first recorded European to lay claim to the area was Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who anchored his ship the Halve Maen ( Half Moon ) at Weehawken Cove on October 2, 1609.

Sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson, in search of the mythical Northwest Passage in the service of the Dutch West India Company, anchored along the shores of Sandy Hook Bay in 1609, describing the area " a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see.

Whilst at one level conservative — harking back in foreign policy to the period of Phillip II, invoking traditional values at home — Philip's policies were also radical, rejecting the policy towards the rebellious Dutch that had held since 1609, entering into the Thirty Years ' War, and introducing a system of junta, or small committee, government across Spain in competition to the traditional system of royal councils.

For centuries, Arba Rukun ( 1269 ), the Friday mosque of Merca ( 1609 ) and Fakr ad-Din ( 1269 ) were, in fact, the only mosques in East Africa to have minarets.

European settlement began on September 3, 1609 when Englishman Henry Hudson in the employ of the Dutch East India Company sailed the Half Moon through The Narrows into Upper New York Bay.

On April 4, 1609, Henry Hudson, an English explorer in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, departed Amsterdam in command of the ship Halve Maen.

The next contact was in 1609 when the explorerer Henry Hudson arrived in what is now New York Harbor aboard a Dutch East India Company ship the Halve Maen ( Half Moon ) commissioned by the Dutch Republic.

The first recorded European visit to the bay was by Henry Hudson, who claimed it for the Dutch East India Company in 1609.

Calvert had long maintained an interest in the exploration and settlement of the New World, beginning with his investment of twenty-five pounds in the second Virginia Company in 1609, and a few months later a more substantial sum in the East India Company, which he increased in 1614.

Wee were forced to runne her ashore ( by reason of her leake ) under a point that bore South East from the Northerne Point of the Island which wee discovered first on the eighth and twentieth of July 1609.

Wee were forced to runne her ashore ( by reason of her leake ) under a point that bore South East from the Northerne Point of the Island which wee discovered first on the eighth and twentieth of July 1609.

In 1609, Sir Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch East India Company.

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company had financed English navigator Henry Hudson to search for the Northwest Passage.

* The Netherlands cedes all of its establishments on the Indian sub-continent ( Dutch India from 1609 ) and any rights associated with them.

The Dutch thought they also had a claim, based on the 1609 explorations of Henry Hudson, and, under the auspices of the Dutch West India Company, were the first Europeans to occupy the land.

During the Dutch rule Pulicat was known by the name Pallaicatta Pulicat today bears testimony to this fact ( period 1606 to 1690 ) with the Dutch Fort in ruins, dating back to 1609, a Dutch Church, Dutch Cemetery with 22 protected tombs ( 1631 to 1655 ) and a Dutch Cemetery with 76 tombs and mausoleums protected by the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ).

The town of Pulicat was the earliest Dutch possession in India founded in 1609 which was ceded to the British in 1825.

His father, Sir William Lovelace, knt., was a member of the Virginia Company and an incorporator in the second Virginia Company in 1609.

In 1609, Sir George Somers set sail aboard the Sea Venture, the new flagship of the Virginia Company, leading a fleet of nine vessels, loaded with provisions and settlers for the new English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia.

But in 1609 he renewed the charter given to the Company for an indefinite period, including a clause which specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years.

The English colony of Bermuda, settled accidentally in 1609, turned from a failed agricultural economy to the sea after the 1684 dissolution of the Somers Isles Company.

*** Bermuda, these islands, located in the North Atlantic, were first settled in 1609 by the London Virginia Company ; Administration passed to The Somers Isles Company, formed by the same shareholders, in 1615.

The original system of government was created under the Virginia Company, which colonised Bermuda, accidentally in 1609, and deliberately from 1612.

The Muscovy Company claimed Bear Island for the English Crown in 1609, but abandoned the site when walrus-hunting declined.

In 1609, with the abandonment of the Plymouth Company settlement, the London Company's Virginia charter was adjusted to include the territory north of the 34th parallel and south of the 39th parallel, with its original coastal grant extended " from sea to sea ".

By 1609, the Plymouth Company had dissolved.

Additionally, in the process of sending additional supplies on the Third Supply mission to Jamestown, in 1609 the Virginia Company of London inadvertently settled the Somers Isles, alias Bermuda, the oldest-remaining English ( since 1707, British ) colony, following the shipwreck of the Virginia Company's new flagship, the Sea Venture.

The Virginia Company abandoned governance by council May 23, 1609, and replacing it with a governor, John Smith.