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January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow
May 13-14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France
July 5 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe sunspots telescopically.
Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
In Jamestown, Virginia, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter and they may have to rely on cannibalism
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
Arabella Stuart, pretender to the English throne, imprisoned for marrying William Seymour
Science
Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry
Births
April 22 - Pietro Vitto Ottoboni later Pope Alexander VIII
December 12 - Saint Vasilije
December 15 - David Teniers the Younger, artist
Deaths
May 14 - King Henry IV of France
May 27 - Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France
October 14 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme
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