Editing 1609 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; A version of the rhyme ''[[Three Blind Mice]]'' is published in London.<ref>In ''Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie''.</ref> The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage [[Thomas Ravenscroft]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Iona and Peter Opie|first=Iona|last=Opie|author2=Peter|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=2nd|year=1997|isbn=0-19-860088-7|page=306}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Matthias of Austria]] is formally crowned in [[Budapest]] as Mátyás II, [[List of Hungarian monarchs|King of Hungary]], after having been appointed on June 26, 1608. 
* [[November 29]] &ndash; In Japan, a treaty is signed between Spanish nobleman [[Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba|Rodrigo de Vivero]], former [[Governor-General of the Philippines]] and the former shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], for the establishment of a Spanish factory in eastern Japan. 
* [[December 8]] &ndash; One of the first [[public library|public libraries]], the ''[[Biblioteca Ambrosiana]]'', is opened in the Italian city of [[Milan]], founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Unlike other reading rooms, the library houses its collection on shelves along the walls, rather than chained to reading tables.