1610

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1607 1608 1609 - 1610 - 1611 1612 1613

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Events

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
The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.

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