Editing 1611 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully]] is forced by [[Marie de' Medici|Queen regent Marie]]'s Regency Council to resign as [[chief minister of France]].<ref>"Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de", by C. J. H. Hayes, in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (11th ed.), Vol. 26 (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p. 58</ref> He is replaced by Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy.
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Sunspot]]s are observed by [[telescope]], by [[Frisians|Frisian]] astronomers [[Johannes Fabricius]] and [[David Fabricius]]. Johannes publishes the results of these observations, in ''De Maculis in Sole observatis'' in [[Wittenberg]], later this year.<ref>{{cite web|first=C.|last=Thony|title=Spotting the spots|url=http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/spotting-the-spots/|work=The Renaissance Mathematicus|date=2011-01-08|access-date=2011-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721212233/http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/spotting-the-spots/ |archive-date=July 21, 2011<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> Such early discoveries are overlooked, however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later, by [[Galileo Galilei]] and [[Christoph Scheiner]].
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[George Abbot (bishop)|George Abbot]] is enthroned as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] in England.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Hole|title=A Manual of English Church History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O40zAQAAIAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|page=278|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; Battle of Segaba in [[Begemder]]: Yemana Kristos, brother of [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] [[Susenyos I]], ends the rebellion of Melka Sedeq.
* [[March 19]]–[[March 20|20]] &ndash; The [[Moscow Uprising (1611)|Moscow Uprising]], an armed rising of the inhabitants of [[Moscow]] in the [[Tsardom of Russia]] against the military [[Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow]] (Fall 1610–Fall 1612), results in the occupying forces starting a major fire in the city and the death of 6–7,000 Muscovites.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://press.lv/post/oglobli-protiv-sabel-moskovskoe-vosstanie-1611-goda-protiv-polyakov-i-ego-itog|publisher=Press|title=Оглобли против сабель: московское восстание 1611 года против поляков и его итог|date=2021-03-19}}</ref>