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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 North America.
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.
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.
Births
March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, hymnist (d. 1676)
November 26 - John Harvard, cleric (d. 1638)
Deaths
Caesar Baronius - Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian
Category:1607
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