1610

1610 (MDCX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1610th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 610th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1610, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1610 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1610 MDCX
Ab urbe condita	2363
Armenian calendar	1059 ԹՎ ՌԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6360
Balinese saka calendar	1531–1532
Bengali calendar	1017
Berber calendar	2560
English Regnal year	7 Ja. 1 – 8 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2154
Burmese calendar	972
Byzantine calendar	7118–7119
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4306 or 4246     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4307 or 4247
Coptic calendar	1326–1327
Discordian calendar	2776
Ethiopian calendar	1602–1603
Hebrew calendar	5370–5371
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1666–1667
- Shaka Samvat	1531–1532
- Kali Yuga	4710–4711
Holocene calendar	11610
Igbo calendar	610–611
Iranian calendar	988–989
Islamic calendar	1018–1019
Japanese calendar	Keichō 15 (慶長１５年)
Javanese calendar	1530–1531
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3943
Minguo calendar	302 before ROC 民前302年
Nanakshahi calendar	142
Thai solar calendar	2152–2153
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 1736 or 1355 or 583     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) 1737 or 1356 or 584

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
• May 27 – Ravaillac is executed by pulling him apart in the Place de Grève
• July 5 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
• October 17 – Louis XIII of France crowned

• Johannes Fabricius is the first to observe sunspots by telescope.
• Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
• In Jamestown, Virginia, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive the harsh winter
• King of France expelled Muslims from his realm.
• Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
• Arabella Stuart, pretender to the English throne, imprisoned for marrying William Seymour
• The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
• Bonham's Case decided by Edward Coke chief justice of England's Court of Common Pleas. Coke affirmed the supremacy of the common law which limited the power of Parliament as well as the king.