Year (''' MDCVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
, April 25 1607, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566–1640).]]
- January 13 - Bank Of Genoa fails after announcement of national Bankruptcy in Spain.
- January 20 - Tidal Wave Swept Along The Bristol Channel , killing 2000 people. (Possibly Tsunami )
- fleet destroys Spanish fleet anchored in the Bay Of Gibraltar ( Battle Of Gibraltar ).
- 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 what is now the United States .
- May 14 - Jamestown, Virginia , is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America .
- , Smith Percy, Archer, and others travel 6 days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan 's village.
- May 26
- --- Jamestown : The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: "Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)
- --- 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing 1 and wounding 11.
- May 28 - Jamestown : The Fort is pallisadoed: "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort" Gabriel Archer (Arber).
- June 5 - John Hall marries Susanna , daughter of William Shakespeare .
- family during protests against enclosure of common land in Newton , Northamptonshire , UK - culmination of Midlands Revolt .
- is released from arrest and sworn in as member of the colony Council.
- : The triangular fort is completed and armed: "The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines." George Percy (Tyler 1952:19)
- June 22 : Christopher Newport sails back to England.
- : The colony bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort John Smith, ''Proceedings'' (Barbour 1964:210) .
- January 10 - Isaac Jogues , Jesuit missionary to native Americans (died 1646 )
- March 20 - Lady Alice Boyle , Irish noblewoman (died 1667 )
- March 24 - Michiel De Ruyter , Dutch admiral (died 1676 )
- July 13 - Václav Hollar , Bohemian etcher (died 1677 )
- August - Claude De Rouvroy, Duc De Saint-Simon , French courtier (died 1693 )
- November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer , German poet (died 1658 )
- November 15 - Madeleine De Scudéry , French writer (died 1701 )
- November 26 - John Harvard , American clergyman (died 1638 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess Of Argyll (died 1661 )
- --- Thomas Barlow , Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691 )
- --- John Boys , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664 )
- --- John Dixwell , English judge and regicide (died 1689 )
- --- Jan Kazimierz Krasiński , Polish nobleman (died 1669 )
- --- Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl Of Southampton (died 1667 )
- --- Francisco De Rojas Zorrilla , Spanish dramatist (died 1660 )
- ''probable''
- --- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi , Japanese samurai (died 1650 )
: ''See also .''
- March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino , Italian composer (b. c 1543 )
- May - Edward Dyer , English courtier and poet (b. 1543 )
- May 21 - John Rainolds , English scholar and Bible translator (b. 1549 )
- June 2 - Yūki Hideyasu , daimyo (b. 1574 )
- June 7 - Johannes Matelart , composer (b. c 1538 )
- June 10 - John Popham , Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1553 )
- June 19 - Patriarch Job Of Moscow
- June 28 - Domenico Fontana , Italian architect (b. 1543 )
- June 30 - Caesar Baronius , Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538 )
- August 22 - Bartholomew Gosnold , English explorer and privateer (b. 1572 )
- September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi , Italian composer (b. 1545 )
- September 22 - Alessandro Allori , Italian painter (b. 1535 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki , Polish philosopher (b. 1530 )
- --- Hōzō-in Inei , Buddhist teacher (b. 1521 )
- --- Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (b. 1562 )
: ''See also .''
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