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- Iii Frederick, Haderslev, Denmark († 1670)
- King Frederick III of Danmark, og Norge III, Haderslev, Haderslev Kommune, Syddanmark, Denmark († 1670)
- Frederik af Danmark, Haderslev, Danemark († 1670)
- Frederik van Denemarken, Hadersleben († 1670)
- Frederik III van Denemarken, Haderslev, Denemarken († 1670)
- Frederik Denemarken, Hadersleben († 1670)
- Frederick III Oldenburg of Denmark-Norway († 1670)
- Margaretha Weber, Rinzenberg, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland († 1687)
- Friedrich III. v.Dänemark, Hadersleben († 1670)
- Frederick III of Denmark, Haderslev, Sonderjylland, Denmark († 1670)
Died on Wednesday March 18, 1609
Born on March 18
- 1552 » Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian († 1610)
- 1555 » Francis, Duke of Anjou († 1584)
- 1578 » Adam Elsheimer, German painter († 1610)
- 1590 » Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet († 1649)
- 1597 » Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal († 1659)
- 1603 » Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate († 1697)
- 1609 » Frederick III of Denmark († 1670)
- 1634 » Madame de La Fayette, French author († 1693)
- 1640 » Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer († 1719)
- 1657 » Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer († 1743)
Died on March 18
- 1582 » Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)
- 1675 » Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
- 1689 » John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
- 1745 » Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
- 1768 » Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)
- 1781 » Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)
- 1823 » Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
- 1835 » Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
- 1845 » Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
- 1871 » Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1609
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- April 5 » Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
- April 9 » Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
- May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
- July 25 » 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.
- July 30 » Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
- September 11 » Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.