of Japan, subsequently ends the "red seal ships" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the Nossa Senhora da Graça incident. December 13 – At the Morača monastery in Kolašin, in what is now the nation of Montenegro, Patriarch Jovan Kantul assembles the rebel leaders of Montenegro and Herzegovina. The group agrees with a representative of the Duchy of Savoy to deliver Duke Charles Emmanuel a monarchy within the Balkans, in return for special privileges to the Serbian Orthodox Church. December 20 – Karl of the House of Liechtenstein founds the Principality of Liechtenstein within the Holy Roman Empire, an independent nation that will continue more than 400 years later between Austria and Switzerland. December – Jamestown supply missions: Christopher Newport returns to England from Jamestown carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..." Date unknown Spring – The Scrooby Congregation of Protestant English Separatists successfully flees to the Dutch Republic from the Humber, origin of the Pilgrim Fathers who in 1620 move on to North America. The first cheques are used in the Dutch Republic. The Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in Korea. Five royal schools in Ulster are given a Royal Charter by King James I. Births January–March January 10 – Henry Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company (d. 1630) January 14 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (d. 1684) January 21 – Theaurau John Tany, English Christian mystic (d. 1659) January 26 – Johannes Heinrich Ursinus, German Lutheran scholar (d. 1667) January 28 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) January 30 – John Oxenbridge, English Nonconformist divine (d. 1674) February 5 – Gaspar Schott, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1666) February 6 – António Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697) February 12 – Daniello Bartoli, Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685) February 20 – Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (d. 1649) February 21 – Elizabeth Barnard, Granddaughter of William Shakespeare (d. 1670) March 18 – Paul Ragueneau, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1680) March 27 – Thomas Rouse, English politician (d. 1676) March 28 – Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, French politician (d. 1652) April–June April 13 – Cornelis Schrevel, Dutch scholar (d. 1664) April 14 – Illiam Dhone, Manx politician (d. 1663) April 15 Honoré Fabri, French mathematician (d. 1688) John Huddleston, English monk of