Major Events
- Jan 13 The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain
- Jan 19 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; the oldest church in the Philippines
- Jan 30 Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of coastline and results in approximately 2,000 casualties
- Feb 24 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo" premieres in Mantua, oldest opera still regularly performed
- Apr 10 The British colonial expedition that would found Jamestown departs Puerto Rico for the American mainland
- Apr 25 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish Portuguese fleet
- Apr 25 Shortly before making landfall in America, Captain Edward Maria Wingfield is named President of the Jamestown governing council
- Apr 26 Jamestown expedition makes first landing in America at a place named Cape Henry, in what would become Virginia, but they quickly depart for a better site
- May 13 English colonists led by John Smith establish Jamestown at a second landing near the James River in Virginia - first permanent English settlement in North America
- May 14 English colonists establish the 1st permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Unknown to them they have landed amidst the worst drought in 800 years.
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1607 in Music
- Feb 24 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo" premieres in Mantua, oldest opera still regularly performed
Born in 1607
- Jan 10 Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary and martyr who was killed by Mohawk, born in Orléans, France (d. 1646)
- Jan 31 James Stanley 7th Earl of Derby, English aristocrat who fought on the Royalist side during English Civil War, born at Knowsley Hall, Merseyside (d. 1651)
- Feb 9 Abraham Megerle, Austrian organist, composer, and Kapellmeister, born in Wasserburg am Inn, Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1680)
- Mar 1 Giovanni Francesco Milanta, Italian composer and organist, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1651)
- Mar 8 Johann von Rist, German composer and poet known for his hymns, born in Ottensen, County of Holstein-Pinneberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1667)
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Who Died in 1607
- Feb 23 Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
- Mar 11 Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
- Apr 15 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator & poet, dies at ~78
- Apr 25 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
- Apr 25 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
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