Editing 1609 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]]
** King [[Philip III of Spain]] signs an edict for the [[expulsion of the Moriscos]] from his country with effect from September 11.
** English explorer [[Henry Hudson]], in the service of the [[Dutch East India Company]], sets out from [[Amsterdam]] in the ''[[Halve Maen]]''.<ref name="Half Moon">{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=Douglas|year=2009|title=Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Press|isbn=978-1-59691-680-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/halfmoonhenryhud00hunt}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Invasion of Ryukyu]] in Japan: Soldiers of the [[Shimazu clan]] capture the castle on [[Ryukyu Island]], beginning to make the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]] a vassal of [[Satsuma Domain|Satsuma]] [[Han (administrative division)|Han]], but Ryukyu is still allowed to keep itself a [[tribute state]] of the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] dynasties.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]] and [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] agree to the [[Twelve Years' Truce]] (which lasts until [[1621]]) in the [[Eighty Years' War]], with the signing of the [[Treaty of Antwerp (1609)|Treaty of Antwerp]], allowing the [[Dutch East India Company]] to trade within the Spanish Empire.
* [[May 20]] &ndash; London publisher [[Thomas Thorpe]] issues ''[[Shakespeare's Sonnets|Shake-speares Sonnets]]'', with a dedication to "Mr. W.H.", and the poem ''[[A Lover's Complaint]]'' appended; it is uncertain whether this publication has [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s authority.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; The [[Second Virginia Charter]] is officially ratified; it is intended to replace the council with a governor, who has absolute control in the colony.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; With the ''[[Sea Venture]]'' as its flagship, a fleet of nine English ships and more than 500 passengers altogether, departs from England to bring supplies to the English settlement in [[Jamestown, Virginia]]. The fleet runs into a storm in July and the ''Sea Venture'' is wrecked in the Bermuda islands on July 24.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The [[War of the Jülich Succession]] begins as the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] and the [[Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg]] sign a treaty at Dortmund and then send troops to establish Protestant Union rule in the Roman Catholic [[United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg]].
* [[June 16]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Tashiskari]] is fought as General [[Giorgi Saakadze]] of the [[Georgia (nation)|Georgian]] [[Kingdom of Kartli]] repels invading troops from the [[Ottoman Empire]] before they can capture [[Tbilisi]].
* [[June 29]] &ndash; A fleet of ships from the Kingdom of [[Spain]], assisted by a French warship, fights a battle in the Mediterranean Sea against a larger fleet of 23 ships from the North African [[Ottoman Tunisia|Eyalet of Tunisia]] and sinks 21 of them. The other two Tunisian ships are captured.