What is 1610?
{{Year nav|1610}} {{Year in various calendars|1610}} {{Year article header|1610}} == Events == * [[January 7]] – [[Galileo Galilei]] discovers the [[Galilean moon]]s of Jupiter. * [[March 12]] – [[Sweden|Swedish]] troops under [[Jacob de la Gardie]] take [[Moscow]] * [[May 13]]-[[May 14|14]] – [[Francois Ravaillac]] assassinates [[Henry IV of France]] * [[May 27]] – [[Ravaillac]] is executed by pulling him apart in the [[Place de Grève]] * [[July 5]] – [[John Guy]] sets sail from [[Bristol]] with 39 other colonists for [[Newfoundland]]. * [[October 17]] – [[Louis XIII of France]] crowned * [[Johannes Fabricius]] is the first to observe [[sunspot]]s by [[telescope]]. * Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops. * In [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], [[Virginia]], only 60 out of 500 settlers survive the harsh winter * King of France expelled Muslims from his realm. * [[Henry Hudson]] discovers [[Hudson Bay]] * [[Arabella Stuart]], pretender to the English throne, imprisoned for marrying [[William Seymour]] * The [[Orion Nebula]] is discovered by [[Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc]]. * [[Bonham's Case]] decided by [[Edward Coke]] chief justice of England's Court of Common Pleas. Coke affirmed the supremacy of the [[common law]] which limited the power of Parliament as well as the king. [[Category:1610| ]]