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Monday, October 12. 1609, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Samuel de Chlain claims the Lake Chlain area of Vermont for France.

The Douay-Rheims BibleOld Testament vol. 1 is published.

The Dutch East India Company imports tea to Europe.

Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland.

The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines was founded.

Three Blind Mice is published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.

The Japanese Shimazu clan invades the Ryukyu Islands, making the Ryukyu Kingdom a vassal of Japan.

The greatest witch-hunt in history, the Basque witch trials, is held.

Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat.

The Catholic League is formed.

The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish highlands.

Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion in "Astronomia Nova".

Hugo Grotius publishes "Mare liberum".

The Dutch East India Company establishes a trading post in Hirado, Japan