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=== April–June === * [[April 4]] – [[Denmark-Norway]] declares [[Kalmar War|war]] on [[Sweden]], then captures [[Kalmar]]. * [[April 7]] (March 28 O.S.) – [[False Dmitry III]], the third pretender to the Russian throne to claim to be Prince [[Dmitry of Uglich]], son of [[Ivan the Terrible]], arrives at [[Ivangorod]] and proclaims himself as the Tsar Dmitry Ivanovich I. * [[April 28]] – The ''Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario'' is established in [[Manila]], the [[Philippines]] (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, and later still the [[University of Santo Tomas]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Domingo Abella|title=From Indio to Filipino: And Some Historical Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlxwAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=M. Romualdez-Abella|page=196|language=en}}</ref> * [[April 30]] – The priest implicated in the [[Aix-en-Provence possessions]] in France is executed. * [[May 2]] – The [[Authorized King James Version]] of the [[Bible]] is published for the first time, printed by [[Robert Barker (printer)|Robert Barker]] in [[London]]. * [[May 9]] – At the age of 16, [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]] succeeds his father [[Emperor Go-Yōzei]] as [[Emperor of Japan]]. * [[May 11]] – The first known performance of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'', probably new this year, is given at the [[Globe Theatre]] in [[London]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=170–172 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> * May–December – Entrepreneur [[Thomas Sutton]] founds [[Charterhouse School]], on the site of the old [[Carthusian]] monastery in [[Charterhouse Square]], [[Smithfield, London]]. * [[June 13]] – The [[Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611)|Siege of Smolensk]] in Russia by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth succeeds after nearly two years of fighting that started on 29 September 1609. The conquest of the city is made possible by the discovery of a weakness in the walls of the fortress and the detonating of an explosive in a drainage canal. * [[June 22]] – English explorer and sea captain [[Henry Hudson]], his teenage son John, and seven crewmen are set adrift in or near [[Hudson Bay]], after a mutiny on his ship ''[[Discovery (1602 ship)|Discovery]]''. They are never seen again.
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