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| 1608 |
| | | Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain as a centre for the French fur trade | |
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| 1608 |
| | | Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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| 1608 |
| | | John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief | |
|  | Map of Virginia featuring an image of Pocahontas, 1608
National Archives, Kew
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| 1609 |
| | | Henry Hudson reaches the inlet of New York Bay and explores the river now known by his name | |
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| 1609 |
| | | Johannes Kepler, in Prague, puts forward the radical proposition that the planets move in elliptical rather than circular orbits | |
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| 1609 |
| | | Galileo improves on the Dutch telescope (and doubles his salary by presenting one to his employer) | |
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| 1609 |
| | | The Blue Mosque, commissioned by Ahmed I, begins to rise in Istanbul like a twin to the nearby Santa Sophia | |
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| 1609 |
| | | A law is passed expelling the Moriscos from Spain, with the result that some 300,000 are shipped to north Africa | |
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| 1609 |
| | | Castaways from an English vessel reach Bermuda, which becomes the first British island in the new world | |
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