1607

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Years: 1604 1605 1606 - 1607 - 1608 1609 1610

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Events

• January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami)
• April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet
• April 26 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States.
• June 8 - Newton Rebellion: 40-50 peasants killed by landowners Tresham family during protests against enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, UK - culmination of Midlands Revolt.
• August 13 - Ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year before residents return to England in the first ocean going ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace, called The Virginia.

• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• The British national anthem, God Save the King, is first sung.
• Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.
• Yaqob is defeated in battle and deposed by his cousin Susenyos, who then becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
• The Midlands Revolt against Enclosure - first use of the terms Levellers and Diggers

Births

• January 10 - Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary to native Americans (died 1646)
• March 20 - Lady Alice Boyle, Irish noblewoman (died 1667)
• March 24 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1676)
• July 13 - Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher (died 1677)
• November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (died 1658)
• November 15 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
• November 26 - John Harvard, American clergyman (died 1638)
• Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (died 1661)
• Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
• John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
• John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (died 1689)
• Jan Kazimierz Krasinski, Polish nobleman (died 1669)
• Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (died 1693)
• Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
• Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (died 1650)
• Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died 1660)

See also Category:1607 births.

Deaths

• March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
• May 21 - John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
• June 10 - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England
• June 30 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1538)
• August 22 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)
• September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer
• September 22 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (born 1535)
• Henry Chettle, English writer (born 1564)
• Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet
• Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia
• Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
• Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Polish philosopher (born 1530)
• Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (born 1562)

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