In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.

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

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

" A commonwealth of good counsaile " was the title of the 1607 English translation of the work of Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki " De optimo senatore " that presented to English readers many of the ideas present in the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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

* 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.

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

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

This ship had previously been used in the 1607 founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what was to become the United States ;

In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.

** Henry Chettle, English dramatist ( d. 1607 )

** Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer ( d. 1607 )

* March 18 – John Dixwell, English judge ( b. 1607 )

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.

* May 16 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman ( b. 1607 )

** John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator ( d. 1607 )

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.

The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement ( after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 ) and later the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement in what was to become the United States of America.

Interestingly, William Camden writing in 1607 states in his book Britannia that originally the title " Prince of Wales " was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II ( who had been the first English Prince of Wales ) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title.

With the arrival of English colonists at Cape Henry in 1607, Europeans again entered the bay.

He could also have known the Philip III story as, although De Rebus wasn't translated into French until 1600, and into English until 1607, there is evidence the Philip III story existed in a jest book ( now lost ) by Richard Edwardes, written in 1570, which Shakespeare certainly could have known.

European colonists reached the Gulf and Pacific coasts, but the largest settlements were by the English on the Atlantic coast, starting in 1607.

; Province of Maine: Settled in 1622 ( An earlier attempt to settle the Popham Colony in Sagadahoc, Maine ( near present day Phippsburg and Popham Beach State Park ) in 1607 was abandoned after only one year ).

** John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England ( died 1607 )

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

*** Popham Colony, founded 1607, abandoned 1608

Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was — between 1607 and 1608 — the first English settlement attempted in New England.

Arriving in August 1607, these Plymouth Company colonists established their settlement, known as the Popham Colony, in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River.

Later in 1607, the Plymouth Company established its Popham Colony in present day Maine, but it was abandoned after about a year.

The most notable English failures were the " Lost Colony of Roanoke " ( 1587 – 90 ) in North Carolina and Popham Colony in Maine ( 1607 – 8 ).

On 13 August 1607, the Plymouth Company established the Popham Colony along the Kennebec River in present day Maine.

In 1607, as a shareholder in the Plymouth Company, he helped fund the failed Popham Colony, near present-day Phippsburg, Maine.

The site of the 1607 Popham Colony in present-day Maine is shown by " Po " on the map.

The Popham Colony ( also known as the Sagadahoc Colony ) was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth.

The loss of life of the colonists in 1607 and 1608 at Popham was far lower than that experienced at Jamestown.

In 1607, on the death of Sir John Popham, Fleming was elevated to the post of Lord Chief Justice of England.

English settlers founded the Popham Colony on an island in the Kennebec River in 1607, the same years as the Jamestown settlement, followed by the Plymouth Colony on the shores of Massachusetts Bay in 1620.

Sir John Popham ( 1531 – 10 June 1607 )

Popham is credited with maintaining the stability of the British State, and for being one of the " real colonisers " of the British Empire ; hosting two Wabanaki tribesmen kidnapped on the Maine coast in 1605, subsequently funding and orchestrating the aborted Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine ( 1607 – 1608 ).

Popham died on 10 June 1607 at Wellington, Somerset.

Inscribed on a stone tablet on the entablature supported by eight Corinthian columns is the following text: Sr John Popham Knighte and Lord Chief Justice of England and of the Honorable Privie Councell to Queene Elizabeth and after to King James, aged 76, died the 10th of June, 1607 and is here interred.

* The Life And Achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531 – 1607, Douglas Walthew Rice-2005 ISBN 0-8386-4060-5