1607

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**1607**

1607 is a common year that begins on a Monday. It is also known as MDCVII in the Gregorian calendar and Anno Domini (AD) 1607.

### Events

#### January

* 13 January: The Bank of Genoa fails.
* 19 January: San Agustin Church, Manila, is officially opened.

#### March

* 10 March: Yaqob of Ethiopia is defeated and killed by Susneyos supporters at the Battle of Gol in Godjam.

#### April

* 25 April: The Battle of Gibraltar takes place, with a Dutch fleet of 26 warships attacking an Ethiopian island.
* 26 April: English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.
* 14 May: Jamestown, Virginia is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America.

#### May

* 15 May: From Jamestown, Christopher Newport directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives.
* 26 May: At Jamestown, the president of the governing council, Edward Wingfield, directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives.

#### June

* 8 June: Newton rebellion: The Tresham landowner family kills more than 40 peasants during protests against enclosure of common land.
* 10 June: In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.
* 22 June: Christopher Newport sails back to England.

#### July

* 2 July: Luis de Velasco returns to office as the Spanish Viceroy of New Spain.
* 10 July: Ottoman Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha launches a secret expedition to confront rebel Kurdish tribal chief Ali Janbulad, who has seized control of Aleppo in what is now Syria.

#### August

* 3 August: After Catholics and Protestants clash in Donauwörth, Emperor Rudolph II declares an imperial ban on the city and orders Bavarian duke Maximilian I to execute the ban.
* 20 August: The second "False Dmitry", one of three people claiming to be Dmitry Ivanovich, son of the late Tsar Ivan the Terrible, appears in the Russian town of Starodub.

#### September

* 16 September: Bône is looted by the Florentine fleet.
* 17 September: Zebrzydowski Rebellion: The Battle of Guzów is fought in Poland near Guzów against rebels by the combined armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Poland's Hetman, General Stanisław Żółkiewski, and the Hetman of Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz.

#### October

* 27 October: Halley comet passage.

### America

* April 26: First English colony founded by Captain Christopher Newport of the London Company in Cape Henry, Virginia.
* May 13: Virginia colony moved from Cape Henry to Jamestown.
* Summer: The Mi'kmaq raid on the Abenaki village of Saco marked the beginning of the Tarrantin War (1607-1615).
* August 11: French colony of Port-Royal abandoned
* August 29 (August 19 of the Julian calendar): the Popham settlement (Sagadahoc) is established by the Plymouth Company at the mouth of the Kennebec River in the present state of Maine; it was abandoned in 1608.
* December 12: Virginia: adventurer John Smith is taken prisoner by chief Opchanacanough, will only have to live to the supplication of the daughter of a 12-year-old tribe leader, Pocahontas.

### Europe

* February 11: Sigismund Rakóczi was elected Prince of Transylvania (end 1608).
* February 24: First performance in Mantua of the opera Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi on a libretto by Striggio.
* March 9, Russia: Basile Chouiski cancels the edicts of