History
1607
General
Population: 541 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include George Chapman (tragedy), Honoré d'Urfé (pastoral work), Thomas Heywood (tragedy), John Marston What You Will (comedy),
Shakespeare Coriolanus and Timon of Athens, Cyril Tourneur (tragedy), John Cowell (law dictionary), John Norden (surveying)
Music includes William Byrd "Gradualia", Claudio Monteverdi "Orfeo"
- Science: Halley's comet
- Deaths: Author Thomas Deloney, Architect domenico Fontana
Americas
- Canada: Henry Hudson explores
Asia
- Japan: Confucianism gains influence in Edo society
Europe
- General: "Flight of the Earls" form Ireland to Spain fearing arrest after attempted insurrection
Ulster is colonized Protestant
Union of England and Scotland rejected by English parliament
- England: Hatfield House in England built by John Thorpe for Robert Cecil
English Parliament rejects proposal for union with Scotland
English and Scottish citizenship secured to those born after James VI reign started
- France: Cardinal Richelieu of FRA becomes bishop at age 22
- Ireland: Bristol Channel hit by tsunami off S Ireland killing about 2000
- Italian States: Joseph Calasanza organizes Brotherhood of Piarists in Rome
- Sweden:: Charles IX crowned king
- Switzerland: Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain
South
- Virginia: Jamestown colony founded - first English settlement on American mainland
Pochahontas saves life of John Smith