Year by year · 17th century

1607

1607 in world history: 5 events, 5 births, 3 deaths, 1 work and 4 states founded. 1,064 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 14 May

    English colonists land at Jamestown

    Settlers of the Virginia Company came ashore on a peninsula in the James River and built a fort. Despite famine and disease, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America.

    JamestownVirginia
ProfileState923 states with a known seat in 1607Open the atlas at 1607 →

In the profiles

  • British EmpireEnglish settlers found Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent colony in the Americas
  • Mutapa EmpireGatsi Rusere cedes mining rights to the Portuguese in return for military help
  • AndorraHenry IV joins the Foix co-princedom to the French crown
  • Powhatan ConfederacyThe English found Jamestown; John Smith is brought before Wahunsenacah

Born in 1607 5

Died in 1607 3

Works 1

States founded 4

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