• English colonists found Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

These people were born in 1607:

• Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

These people died in 1607:

• English noblewoman Penelope Rich, the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella.

1606 - 1607 - 1608

17th century

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