1607

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1605
  • 1606
  • 1607
  • 1608
  • 1609
  • 1610
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1607 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1607
MDCVII
Ab urbe condita2360
Armenian calendar1056
ԹՎ ՌԾԶ
Assyrian calendar6357
Balinese saka calendar1528–1529
Bengali calendar1014
Berber calendar2557
English Regnal year4 Ja. 1 – 5 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2151
Burmese calendar969
Byzantine calendar7115–7116
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4303 or 4243
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4304 or 4244
Coptic calendar1323–1324
Discordian calendar2773
Ethiopian calendar1599–1600
Hebrew calendar5367–5368
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1663–1664
 - Shaka Samvat1528–1529
 - Kali Yuga4707–4708
Holocene calendar11607
Igbo calendar607–608
Iranian calendar985–986
Islamic calendar1015–1016
Japanese calendarKeichō 12
(慶長１２年)
Javanese calendar1527–1528
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3940
Minguo calendar305 before ROC
民前305年
Nanakshahi calendar139
Thai solar calendar2149–2150
Tibetan calendar阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1733 or 1352 or 580
    — to —
阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1734 or 1353 or 581
April 25: Battle of Gibraltar

1607 (MDCVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1607th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 607th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1607, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 13 – The Bank of Genoa fails, after the announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
  • January 19 – San Agustin Church, Manila, is officially completed; by the 21st century it will be the oldest church in the Philippines.
  • January 30 – A massive wave sweeps along the Bristol Channel, possibly a tsunami, killing 2,000 people.[1]
  • February 24 – Première of Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the earliest fully developed opera in the modern-day repertoire, at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.[2]
  • March 10 – Battle of Gol in Gojjam: Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II, which makes him Emperor of Ethiopia.
  • April 25 – Battle of Gibraltar: A Dutch fleet destroys a Spanish fleet anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar.[3]
  • April 26 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.
  • May 14 – Jamestown, Virginia, is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the American frontier.
  • May 15 – Jamestown: Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer, and others travel six days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan's village.
  • May 26
    • 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)]
    • 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing two and wounding ten.
  • May 28 – Jamestown: The Fort is : "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort" [Gabriel Archer (Arber)].
  • June 5 – John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.
  • June 8 – Newton rebellion: The landowners family kills 40–50 peasants, during protests against the enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, England, at the culmination of the Midland Revolt.
  • June 10 – Jamestown: Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a 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 – The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish 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 oceangoing ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace called The Virginia.
  • September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.
  • September 10 – Jamestown President Edward Maria Wingfield is deposed, and John Ratcliffe elected.
  • September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, flee Ireland for Spain with 90 followers, to avoid capture by the English crown, never to return.
  • October 27 - Halley's Comet is seen by Johannes Kepler
  • September – The Scrooby Congregation of Protestant English Separatists attempt to flee to the Dutch Republic from Boston, Lincolnshire, but are betrayed, arrested and imprisoned for a time.
  • December (early) – Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by Opchancanough, and then sent to Chief Powhatan for execution; Pocahontas rescues him.

Date unknown[]

  • Spain is effectively bankrupt.
  • The rule of Andorra passes jointly to the king of France, and the Bishop of Urgell.
  • In the Midland Revolt against Enclosures in England, the term Levellers is first used.
  • Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.


Births[]

Isaac Jogues
Antonio Barberini
Jan Lievens
Anna Maria van Schurman
Madeleine de Scudéry
John Harvard

January–March[]

  • January 10 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary to the Native Americans (d. 1646)
  • January 30 – Willem Nieupoort, Dutch politician, and diplomat (d. 1678)
  • January 31 – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (d. 1651)
  • February 9 – Abraham Megerle, Austrian composer and organist (d. 1680)
  • February 22 – Edward Thurland, English politician (d. 1683)
  • February 25 – Ahasuerus Fromanteel, English clockmaker (d. 1693)
  • February 27 – Christian Keymann, German hymnwriter (d. 1662)
  • March – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish clan chief (d. 1661)
  • March 8 – Johann Rist, German poet and dramatist known for hymns (d. 1667)
  • March 9 – Gervase Holles, English Member of Parliament (d. 1675)
  • March 10 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (d. 1667)[citation needed]
  • March 12 – Paul Gerhardt, German theologian (d. 1676)
  • March 24 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1676)[4]
  • March 31 – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, French poet (d. 1657)

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Probable[]

Deaths[]

Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon
Anna d'Este
Martim Afonso de Castro
Caesar Baronius

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 6 – Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver (b. 1565)
  • April 9 – Eleanor of Prussia, daughter of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia; by marriage Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1583)
  • April 15
    • César de Bus, French Catholic priest (b. 1544)
    • Cornelis Kiliaan, 16th-century writer from the Southern Netherlands (b. 1528)
  • April 27 – Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, Governor of Lecale (b. 1560)
  • May – Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet (b. 1543)
  • May 3 – Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll, Scottish noblewoman (b. 1574)
  • May 17 – Anna d'Este, French princess (b. 1531)
  • May 21 – John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (b. 1549)
  • May 25 – Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (b. 1566)
  • June 2 – Yūki Hideyasu, daimyō (b. 1574)
  • June 3 – Martim Afonso de Castro, Portuguese Viceroy of India (b. 1560)
  • June 7 – Johannes Matelart, composer (b. c. 1538)
  • June 10 – John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1531)
  • June 19
    • Johannes Bertelius, Luxembourgian historian (b. 1544)
    • Patriarch Job of Moscow
  • June 28 – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)
  • June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)

July–September[]

October–December[]

References[]

  1. ^ BBC staff (September 24, 2014). "The great flood of 1607: could it happen again?". BBC Somerset. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
  2. ^ David Clarke; Eric Clarke (July 28, 2011). Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives. OUP Oxford. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-19-162558-9.
  3. ^ Roger Quarm (1992). The Ship. Scala Books. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-85759-010-4.
  4. ^ Petrus Johannes Blok (1975). The Life of Admiral de Ruyter. Greenwood Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8371-7666-6.
  5. ^ Dorothy McDougall (1938). Madeleine de Scudéry: Her Romantic Life and Death. Methuen & Company, Limited. p. 5.
  6. ^ New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven (1900). Papers. pp. 340–342.
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