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1610:

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613

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Year 1610 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday ^[1] of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
March 12 - Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow.
May 14 - Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France.
May 23 - Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (during winter), the fort palizadoes and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
May 24 - Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
May 27 - Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève.
June 7 - Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
June 8 - Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ("Delaware") at Mulberry Island.
June 10 - Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.
June 22 - Arbella Stuart, pretender to the English throne, secretly marries William Seymour; both are later imprisoned for marrying without the king's permission.

July 5 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
August 2 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
August 9 - Jamestown: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term "Paspahegh" in documents refers to their former territory.
August 21 - The Tuscans fight the Turks.
October 10 - The Tuscans fight the Turks again.
October 17 - Louis XIII of France is crowned.

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.
The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
Bonham's Case is decided by Edward Coke, chief justice of England's Court of Common Pleas. Coke affirms the supremacy of the common law, which limits the power of Parliament as well as the king.
By this year, the Portuguese colony of Brazil has either 400 mills producing 57,000 tons of sugar a year, or only 230 mills producing 14,000 tons of sugar a year; accepting either figure depends on which expert you believe is more accurate, according to Alfred W. Crosby Jr. on page 69 of his book The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In any case, the incredible wealth the Portuguese acquire from selling sugar in Europe prompts the English and French to follow suit in this century.
The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming Dynasty of China, then under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing Dynasty that overthrow the short-lived Shun Dynasty in 1644 and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.