In history, year 1610 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1610.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observationof the four Galilean moons through his telescope-Ganymede, Callisto, Ioand Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two untilthe following day.
English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now knownas Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage toreach the Pacific Ocean.
