1609
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1609 (MDCIX) is the 609th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1600s decade.
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Art and culture
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Events
- March – Hugo Grotius publishes Mare Liberum, his legal text on freedom of the seas, in Leiden.
- April 9 – Treaty of Antwerp: The Netherlands and Spain agree to the Twelve Years' Truce (1609–1621) in the Eighty Years' War, allowing the Dutch East India Company to trade within the Spanish Empire.
- September 11 – Valencia expels all the Moriscos (see April 4).
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Literature
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Fiction
- May 20 – London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues Shake-speares Sonnets, with a dedication to "Mr. W.H.", and the poem A Lover's Complaint appended; it is uncertain whether this publication has Shakespeare's authority.
- October 12 – A version of the rhyme Three Blind Mice is published in London.
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- February 10 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- October 5 – Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (d. 1640)
- October 19 – Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (d. 1676)
- November 25 – Henrietta Maria of France, queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
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Deaths
- January 21 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
- July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1560)
- July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1543)
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