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1607

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
April 25: Battle of Gibraltar
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)
4304 or 4097
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4305 or 4098
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

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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  • April 25 – Battle of Gibraltar: A Dutch fleet of 26 warships, led by Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, stages a surprise attack on a Spanish fleet anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar. In the battle that ensues, Spain loses as many as 10 galleons and 12 smaller ships, and at least 300 men are killed. The disaster causes Spain to go into bankruptcy by October. [4]
  • 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 – From 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 – At Jamestown, the president of the governing council, Edward Wingfield, 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 ..."[5] 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing two people and wounding 10.
  • May 28 – A wooden defensive wall (palisade) is built by settlers around the Fort at Jamestown. Gabriel Archer writes in his journal, "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort".
  • June 5 – Dr John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, S4tratford-upon-Avon (England).
  • June 8 – Newton rebellion: The Tresham landowning family kills more than 40 peasants during protests against the enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, England, at the culmination of the Midland Revolt.
  • June 10 – In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.
  • June 15 – At 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."[6] The colony reportedly bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort.[7]
  • June 22 – Christopher Newport sails back to England.

July–September

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October–December

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  • October 4 – Flight of the Earls: The Earl of Tyrone and the Earl of Tyrconnell, along with their followers, reach the European continent, landing on St. Francis' Day at Quilleboeuf in France with 99 people.[8] after having departed Rathmullan in Ireland on September 12.
  • October 27 – Halley's Comet is seen by Johannes Kepler.
  • November 7 – A Dutch warship commanded by Admiral Cornelis Matelief de Jonge arrives at the Malay Peninsula to attempt opening trade with the Pahang Sultanate, and get Pahang's assistance in the Dutch Navy's fight against the Portuguese Navy in Asian trade. Sultan Abdul Ghafur agrees to assistance in return for Dutch technical assistance.[9]
  • November 9 – King Philip III of Spain announces that his government had run out of money and that it is suspending payments on its foreign debts.[10] effectively declaring the state bankrupt. The decision in the wake of the destruction of most of the ships of Spain's Navy at the April 25 Battle of Gibraltar.
  • November 15 – Flight of the Earls: After the departure from Ireland of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, along with 90 of their followers, King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland issues a proclamation "that the flight of the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconell, with some others of their fellowes out of the North parts of our Realme of Ireland; these men's corruption and falshood, whose hainous offences remaine so fresh in memorie since they declared themselves so very monsters in nature, as they did not only whithdraw themselues from their personall obedience to their Soveraigne, but were content to sell over their Native Countrey to those that stood at that time in the highest termes of hostilitie with the two Crownes of England and Ireland... we doe hereby professe in the worde of a King, that... notwithstanding all that they can claime, must be acknowledged to proceed from meere Grace upon their submission after their great and unnaturall Treasons", and must forfeit their rights and possessions as nobles. [11]
  • December 10 – Captain John Smith and nine men depart the Jamestown Colony on a barge in order to get more corn for the English fort. Sailing up the Chickahominy River, the boat reaches a settlement of the Appomattoc tribe at Apocant. While Smith, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery are further upstream in a canoe, George Casson is captured at Apocant by Opchanacanough, brother of Chief Powhatan. Robinson and Emery are killed while Smith is away from their camp, and Smith is soon taken prisoner by Opchancanough and, on January 5, is delivered to Powhatan at Werowocomoco for execution. After an intervention by Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, Smith is released a month after his capture.[12]
  • December 22 – A fleet of 13 Dutch warships under the command of Admiral Pieter Verhoeff departs the Netherlands on an expedition to the Indian Ocean to open trade with Asian nations and to fight hostile resistance. Verhoeff never returns, and he and many of his crew will be ambushed and killed on May 22 at the Banda Islands in Indonesia.

Date unknown

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Births

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

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Probable

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Deaths

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

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Undated

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References

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  1. ^ BBC staff (24 September 2014). "The great flood of 1607: could it happen again?". BBC Somerset. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
  2. ^ Bryant, Edward; Haslett, Simon (2002). "Was the AD 1607 Coastal Flooding Event in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel (UK) Due to a Tsunami?" (PDF). Archaeology in the Severn Estuary (13): 163–7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
  3. ^ David Clarke; Eric Clarke (28 July 2011). Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives. OUP Oxford. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-19-162558-9.
  4. ^ Roger Quarm (1992). The Ship. Scala Books. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-85759-010-4.
  5. ^ John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964).
  6. ^ George Percy (Tyler 1952:19).
  7. ^ John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964:210).
  8. ^ Tadhg Ó Cianáin, The Flight of the Earls (1609)
  9. ^ William Linehan, History of Pahang (Malaysian Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society, 1973)
  10. ^ Paul C. Allen, Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598–1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy (Yale University Press, 2000)
  11. ^ "A Proclamation touching the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconnell"
  12. ^ "Smith, John (1580–1631)", by Edward Arbab, in Encyclopaedia Britannica (R.S. Peale, 1892) p. 175
  13. ^ Britannica.
  14. ^ Petrus Johannes Blok (1975). The Life of Admiral de Ruyter. Greenwood Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8371-7666-6.
  15. ^ Dorothy McDougall (1938). Madeleine de Scudéry: Her Romantic Life and Death. Methuen & Company, Limited. p. 5.
  16. ^ New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven (1900). Papers. pp. 340–342.
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