Events January–March January 26 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully is forced by Queen regent Marie's Regency Council to resign as chief minister of France. He is replaced by Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy. February 27 – Sunspots are observed by telescope, by 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. Such early discoveries are overlooked, however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later, by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner. March 4 – George Abbot is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. March 9 – Battle of Segaba in Begemder: Yemana Kristos, brother of Emperor of Ethiopia Susenyos I, ends the rebellion of Melka Sedeq. April–June April 4 – Denmark-Norway declares war on Sweden, then captures Kalmar. April 7 – (March 28 O.S.); 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, now known as the University of Santo Tomas). May 2 – The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London. May 9 – In Japan, sixteen-year-old Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yōzei. May 11 – William Shakespeare's play, The Winter's Tale, is performed for the first time, staged at the Globe Theatre in London. June 13 – The siege by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Russian city of Smolensk succeeds after nearly two years of fighting that had started on 29 September 1609. The conquest 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. They are never seen again. July–September July 12 – The Perpetual Edict is proclaimed for the government of the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) by Archduke Albert VII and his wife Isabella, the joint rulers of the Austrian-controlled nation. July 17 – The Army of the Swedish Empire, commanded by