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Mar 12, 2015 · 3 min read. When did human impact really change planet Earth? A new theory says the year is 1610. Norman Kuring, NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP. While 1492 may have been the year Columbus sailed the ocean...
What happened and who was famous in 1610? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1610.
On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered, using a homemade telescope, four moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. Looking at what he thought were a group of stars, he realized the objects appeared to move in a regular pattern.
Mar 11, 2015 · Anthropology. This article is more than 9 years old. Was 1610 the beginning of a new human epoch? A new study finds the year to be a key point for the Anthropocene – marking the irreversible...
Galileo observed Jupiter’s Moons, providing a powerful argument that Earth may not be the center of the Universe, but instead circle the Sun. Galileo also measured the phases of Venus. This unequivocally falsified the geocentric model of the universe.
Births. Deaths. References. 1610s. The 1610s decade ran from January 1, 1610, to December 31, 1619. Events. 1610. August 2: Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay. January–March. January 6 – Nossa Senhora da Graça incident: A Portuguese carrack sinks near Nagasaki, after fighting Japanese samurai for four nights.
May 24, 2017 · ENTRY. Sea Venture. SUMMARY. The Sea Venture was the flagship of a convoy sent from England in June 1609 to re-supply and revive the failing colony at Jamestown. On July 24, just off the coast of the uninhabited island chain of Bermuda, the fleet sailed into a hurricane.
