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Year '1607' ('MDCVII') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1607

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1607

January - June

★ January 13 - Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

★ January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami)

★ April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar: Dutch fleet destroys Spanish fleet anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar (Battle of Gibraltar).

★ 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 what is now the United States.

★ May 14 - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.

★ May 15 - Jamestown: Christopher Newport, Smith Percy, Archer, and others travel 6 days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan's village.

★ May 26

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★ Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)]

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★ 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing 1 and wounding 11.

★ May 28 - Jamestown: The Fort is pallisadoed: "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort" Gabriel Archer (Arber).

★ June 5 - John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.

★ 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.

★ June 10 - Jamestown: John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as member of the colony Council.

★ June 15: Jamestown: The triangular fort is completed and armed: "The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines." George Percy (Tyler 1952:19)

★ June 22: Christopher Newport sails back to England.

★ June 27: Jamestown: The colony bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort [from John Smith, ''Proceedings'' (Barbour 1964:210)].

July - December

★ 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''.

★ September 14 - Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, leave Ireland with ninety followers, never to return.

★ September 10: Jamestown: President Wingfield is deposed, and then Ratcliffe is elected.

★ December - Jamestown: In early December, John Smith is captured by Opechancanough.

Undated

★ 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 Midland Revolt against Enclosure - first use of the terms Levellers.

★ Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.

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)

★ August - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (died 1693)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (died 1661)

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★ Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)

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★ John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)

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★ John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (died 1689)

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★ Jan Kazimierz Krasiński, Polish nobleman (died 1669)

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★ Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)

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★ Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died 1660)

★ ''probable''

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★ Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (died 1650)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer (b. c1543)

★ May - Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet (b. 1543)

★ May 21 - John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (b. 1549)

★ June 2 - Yūki Hideyasu, daimyo (b. 1574)

★ June 7 - Johannes Matelart, composer (b. c1538)

★ June 10 - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1553)

★ June 19 - Patriarch Job of Moscow

★ June 28 - Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)

★ June 30 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)

★ August 22 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)

★ September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer (b. 1545)

★ September 22 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (b. 1530)

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★ Hōzō-in Inei, Buddhist teacher (b. 1521)

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★ Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (b. 1562)

★ ''probable''

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★ Henry Chettle, English writer (b. 1564)
: ''See also .''