Editing 1610 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 10]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Brussol]] is signed between [[Charles Emmanuel I]], [[Duke of Savoy]], and a representative of [[Henry IV of France|King Henry IV of France]], at a meeting at [[Bruzolo]] near [[Turin]]. The agreement for France and Savoy to remove Spanish occupiers from Italy, is never carried out because King Henry is assassinated one month later. 
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[William Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[Macbeth|The Tragedie of Macbeth]]'', is given its first performance, staged at the [[Globe Theatre]] in [[London]]. <ref>"The Tragedy of Macbeth", in ''The Oxford Shakespeare'', ed. by Nicholas Brooke (Oxford University Press, 2008) p. 234</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; A formal coronation is held for [[Marie de' Medici]], wife of King Henry IV, as Queen Consort of France. King Henry is preparing to depart to Germany to participate in the [[War of the Jülich Succession]].
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Henry IV of France|King Henry IV]] of [[France]] is assassinated in [[Paris]] by [[François Ravaillac]], a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision to launch a war against the Catholic Spanish Netherlands. Ravaillac rushes up to a horse-drawn carriage and stabs King Henry in the chest. Henry's 8-year-old son becomes King [[Louis XIII]], with Henry's widow, [[Marie de' Medici]], governing France as queen regent.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia]]: Acting as temporary Governor, [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Thomas Gates]], along with [[John Rolfe]], Captain [[Ralph Hamor]], Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the ''Sea Venture'' (wrecked at [[Bermuda]]) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia]]: The temporary Governor, [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Thomas Gates]], issues ''The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws''.
* [[May 27]] &ndash; Regicide [[François Ravaillac]] is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the [[Place de Grève]], Paris.
* [[June 5]] &ndash; The masque [[Tethys' Festival]] is performed at [[Whitehall Palace]] to celebrate the investiture of [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]].<ref>Leeds Barroll, ''Anna of Denmark, A Cultural Biography'' (Pennsylvania, 2001), pp. 122–6.</ref>
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]: Temporary Governor [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Gates]] decides to abandon Jamestown.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor [[Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr]] (''[[Delaware]]'') at [[Mulberry Island]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Henri Membertou]], Grand Chief of Mi'kmaq nation, becomes the first North American aboriginal person to accept baptism into the Christian faith and signs the Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi'kmaq as an independent nation.<ref>Sam McKegney, ''Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School'' (University of Manitoba Press, 2007) p.112</ref>