Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 - 1607 - 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• April 26 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• The British national anthem, God Save the King, is first sung.
• Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.

• 1607 in literature
• 1607 in science

• March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, hymnist (d. 1676)
• November 26 - John Harvard, cleric (d. 1638)

• Caesar Baronius - Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian