WHAT HAPPENED IN 1609.
Look what happened the 1609.

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

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

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

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

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

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. (25. August 1609)

Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. (28. August 1609)

Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos. (11. September 1609)

Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there. (11. September 1609)

Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen. (12. September 1609)

Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River. (13. September 1609)