In 1608, Dutchman Hans Lippershey applied for a patent on which new scientific instrument?

Which unit of time is 1/60 of a minute and until 1960 was defined as 1/86,400 of a mean solar day? In 1605, Part One of which Spanish classic was first published? In 1605, which man was discovered under the English Parliament along with barrels of gunpowder? In 1607, which site was settled, becoming the first permanent English colony in the New World? In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded which city, one of North America's oldest? About 1,609 meters equal one of which unit? In 1609, which Italian began studying the Moon through a telescope he had built himself? In 1614, Pocahontas married which English tobacco planter?