* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

* 1607 – Eighty Years ' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

# Eleanor of Prussia ( 22 August 1583 – 31 March / 9 April 1607 ).

* Cremin, Lawrence A., " American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607 – 1783 ," First Edition, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

* 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania ( d. 1662 )

Although the defenders were relieved, Maguire was in possession of the castle from 1595 – 8 and it wasn't till 1607 that it was finally captured by the English.

* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).

It was written in the Tarikh-i Firishta ( 1606 – 1607 ) that Nasir ud din Mahmud the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate presented the envoy of the Mongol ruler Hulegu Khan with a dazzling pyrotechnics display upon his arrival in Delhi in 1258 AD.

* John Harvard ( clergyman ) ( 1607 – 1638 ), a clergyman after whom Harvard University is named

During the Polish – Muscovite War ( 1605 – 1618 ), Polish – Lithuanian forces reached Moscow and installed the impostor False Dmitriy I in 1605, then supported False Dmitry II in 1607.

Portrait of a Woman, Alessandro Allori ( 1535 – 1607 ; Uffizi Gallery ): a plucked hairline gives a fashionably " noble brow "

* 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian ( b. 1607 )

* 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

* 1607 – Isaac Jogues, French missionary ( d. 1646 )

* 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

Thirdly, he married Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst ( – 5 October 1607 ) in 1577.

* Marie Eleonore ( 22 March 1607 – 18 February 1675 ), married Louis Philip, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern

* Agnes of Brandenburg ( 31 August 1606 – 12 March 1607 ).

* John Frederick of Brandenburg ( 18 August 1607 – 1 March 1608 ).

* Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( c. 1607 – 1679 )

* 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.

The honour of being the first opera still to be regularly performed, however, goes to Claudio Monteverdi's L ' Orfeo, composed for the court of Mantua in 1607.

Peri's Euridice opens with a brief instrumental ritornello, and Monteverdi's L ' Orfeo ( 1607 ) opens with a toccata, in this case a fanfare for muted trumpets.

He also began adapting musical works of earlier eras for contemporary theatrical presentation, including Claudio Monteverdi's opera L ' Orfeo ( 1607 ).

His chief book, L ' idea de ' Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti ( 1607 ), was far less popular.

The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.

Written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua, L ' Orfeo is one of the earliest music dramas still regularly performed.

It is not clear at what point Striggio began his libretto for L ' Orfeo, but work was evidently under way in January 1607.

* The classic novel L ' Astrée ( 1607 – 27 ) by Honoré d ' Urfé was obviously inspired by the prose romance of chivalry Amadis de Gaula, which had been circulating since the late 13th century, but reached its pinnacle when reassembled by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

In the first performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo ( 1607 ), for example, they played subsidiary roles, including Speranza and ( possibly ) that of Euridice.

However, employment of countertenors never extended to early opera, the rise of which coincided with the arrival of a fashion for castrati, who took, for example, several roles in the first performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo ( 1607 ).

*** This opening movement makes use of musical elements from the introduction to Monteverdi's Orfeo ( 1607 )

Several are called for ( as violini piccoli alla francese-small French violins ) in Monteverdi's 1607 Orfeo.

The theme of Orpheus, the demi-god of music, was understandably popular and attracted Claudio Monteverdi ( 1567 – 1643 ) who wrote his first opera, La Favola d ' Orfeo ( The Fable of Orpheus ), in 1607 for the court of Mantua.

In the first performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607 the roles of Eurydice and Proserpina were both sung by castrati.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

Battle of Gibraltar of 1607 by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom.

In 1607 England built an establishment at Jamestown This was the beginning of colonialism by England in North America.

Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

However, Henry Hudson could only have come by on his voyage in 1607 ( if he had made an illogical detour ) and he made no mention of it in his journal.

St Jerome, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1607, at St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

A document dated 5 September 1607, purporting to be a transmission by Miyamoto Munisai of his teachings, suggests Munisai lived at least to this date.

The first English settlement in Maine, the short-lived Popham Colony, was established by the Plymouth Company in 1607.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

Named for King James I, it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport.

Militia companies were formed with the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607, but the first militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 13 December 1636.

Henry III of Navarre, who was also count of Foix, in 1589 ascended the French throne as Henry IV, and by an edict of 1607 established the head of the French state, along with the bishop of Urgel, as co-princes of Andorra.

Despite earlier settlements by England in The Americas, ( 1607: Jamestown, 1609: Bermuda, and 1620: Plymouth Colony, and closer to Barbadoes the Leeward Islands were claimed by the English at about the same time as Barbados: 1623: St Kitts, 1628: Nevis, 1632: Montserrat, 1632: Antigua.

In 1607, some reports suggest that John Smith sailed past the Virgin Islands on the expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport to found the new colony in Virginia.

The second stage in Byrd's programme of liturgical polyphony is formed by the Gradualia, two cycles of motets containing 109 items and published in 1605 and 1607.

The feasts covered include the major feasts of the Virgin Mary ( including the votive masses for the Virgin for the four seasons of the church year ), All Saints and Corpus Christi ( 1605 ) followed by the feasts of the Temporale ( Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( with additional items for St Peter's Chains and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament ) in 1607.

The area was first explored by members of the ill-fated Popham Colony in September 1607.

This calculation enabled him, after examining historical records, to determine that the orbital elements of a second comet which had appeared in 1682, were nearly the same as those of two comets which had appeared in 1531 ( observed by Petrus Apianus ) and 1607 ( observed by Johannes Kepler ).

* 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607 – 1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen

British colonization of the Americas ( including colonization by both the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland before the Acts of Union which created the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 ) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.