1607
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s |
| Years: | 1604 1605 1606 – 1607 – 1608 1609 1610 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1607 MDCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2360 |
| Armenian calendar | 1056 ԹՎ ՌԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6357 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1528–1529 |
| Bengali calendar | 1014 |
| Berber calendar | 2557 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Ja. 1 – 5 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2151 |
| Burmese calendar | 969 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7115–7116 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4303 or 4243 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4304 or 4244 |
| Coptic calendar | 1323–1324 |
| Discordian calendar | 2773 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1599–1600 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5367–5368 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1663–1664 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1528–1529 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4707–4708 |
| Holocene calendar | 11607 |
| Igbo calendar | 607–608 |
| Iranian calendar | 985–986 |
| Islamic calendar | 1015–1016 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 12 (慶長１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1527–1528 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3940 |
| Minguo calendar | 305 before ROC 民前305年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 139 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2149–2150 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1733 or 1352 or 580 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1734 or 1353 or 581 |
1607 (MDCVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1607th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 607th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1607, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Births
[change | change source]- January 10 – Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary to Native Americans (died 1646)
- March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, Irish noblewoman (died 1667)
- March 24 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1676)
- July 13 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher (died 1677)
- November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (died 1658)
- November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
- November 26 – John Harvard, American clergyman (died 1638)
- Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (died 1661)
- Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
- John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
- John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (died 1689)
- Jan Kazimierz Krasinski, Polish nobleman (died 1669)
- Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (died 1693)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (died 1650)
- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died 1660)