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Historical Event(s)
– Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
– Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
– Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
– The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
– Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
– Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
– Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
– Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
– Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
Who Were Born On ?
– John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
– Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674)
– King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
– King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
– Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
– William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
– Queen Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669)
– Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
– Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)