1607
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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.
*
May 14 -
Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent
English colony in
North America.
*
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.
Unknown dates
*
Ireland the
Flight of the Earls*
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.
*
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.*
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)
See also :Category:1607 deaths.
