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1607

Years: 1604 1605 1606 - 1607 - 1608 1609 1610

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1607 in literature 1607 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet
• 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 North America.
• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• The British national anthem, God Save the King, is first sung.
• Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.

Births

• March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, hymnist (d. 1676)
• November 26 - John Harvard, cleric (d. 1638)

Deaths

• Caesar Baronius - Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian

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