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List of 1607 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1607

What happened in the year 1607?

Date Event
January 19, 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
January 30, 1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
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 I 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 The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
May 14, 1607 English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.
May 24, 1607 One hundred-five English settlers under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport established the colony called Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.
June 15, 1607 Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks.
September 4, 1607 The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
September 10, 1607 Edward Maria Wingfield ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
September 14, 1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
October 5, 1607 Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
December 29, 1607 According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him.