WHAT HAPPENED IN 1607.
Look what happened the 1607.

The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. (13. January 1607)

San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. (19. January 1607)

An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. (30. January 1607)

L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance. (24. February 1607)

Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia. (10. March 1607)

Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. (25. April 1607)

English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. (26. April 1607)

Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. (14. May 1607)

100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America. (24. May 1607)

Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland. (14. September 1607)

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