1607 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1607?
- January 13, 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- January 19, 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- February 24, 1607 – L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
- March 10, 1607 – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
- April 25, 1607 – Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
- April 26, 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- May 14, 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- September 14, 1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
Who Were Born In The Year 1607?
- January 10, 1607 – Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
- March 12, 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
- March 24, 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
- July 13, 1607 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born English etcher (d. 1677)
- November 1, 1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
- November 15, 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
- November 26, 1607 – John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
- December 14, 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania (d. 1662)
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