WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1609
Find out what all happened February to July 1609

Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. (6. July 1609)

Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. (20. May 1609)

Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. (5. April 1609)

Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place. (23. May 1609)

Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce. (9. April 1609)

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. (25. July 1609)

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