1607

1607 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1607
MDCVII
Ab urbe condita2360
Armenian calendar1056
ԹՎ ՌԾԶ
Assyrian calendar6357
Balinese saka calendar1528–1529
Bengali calendar1014
Berber calendar2557
English Regnal yearJa. 1 – 5 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2151
Burmese calendar969
Byzantine calendar7115–7116
Chinese calendar丙午(Fire Horse)
4303 or 4243
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4304 or 4244
Coptic calendar1323–1324
Discordian calendar2773
Ethiopian calendar1599–1600
Hebrew calendar5367–5368
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1663–1664
 - Shaka Samvat1528–1529
 - Kali Yuga4707–4708
Holocene calendar11607
Igbo calendar607–608
Iranian calendar985–986
Islamic calendar1015–1016
Japanese calendarKeichō 12
(慶長12年)
Javanese calendar1527–1528
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3940
Minguo calendar305 before ROC
民前305年
Nanakshahi calendar139
Thai solar calendar2149–2150
Tibetan calendarམེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1733 or 1352 or 580
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
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

  • January 10 – Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary to Native Americans (died 1646)
  • March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, Irish noblewoman (died 1667)
  • March 24Michiel 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)