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Years:
1604 1605 1606 - 1607 - 1608 1609 1610
Decades:
1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1607 in literature
1607 in science

Events

  • 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
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