1607 Calendar
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1607 Historical Event(s)
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 On 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)