Pocahontas (c.1595-1617), daughter of Chief Powhatan, wife of John Rolfe
In the year 1607, Jamestown, Virginia, is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the American frontier (May 14), the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English takes place as Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon off the coast of Sierra Leone (Sep 5), Halley’s Comet is seen by Johannes Kepler (Oct 27), Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by the Opchancanough tribe, and sent to Chief Powhatan for execution, but Pocahontas rescues him (Dec), Spain is effectively bankrupt - and all these fine people were born:
1607-xxxx Antoine Gombaud* writer - Poitou, France (1684/77)
1607-0110 Isaac Jogues* missionary/martyr - Orleans, Kingdom of France (1646/39)
1607-0225 Ahasuerus Fromanteel* clockmaker/the first maker of pendulum clocks in Britain - Norwich, England (1693/85)
1606-0322 Fredrik Stenbock* count/soldier/civil servant - Sweden (1652/45)
1607-0324 Michiel de Ruyter* Dutch admiral - Vlissingen, Spanish Netherlands (1676/69)
1607-0331 Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville* poet - Caen, Normandy, France (1657/50)
1607-0405 John Boys (B) soldier/Royalist governor of Donnington Castle during the English Civil War - Bonnington, Kent, England (1664/57)
1607-0531 Johann Wilhelm Baur* German engraver/etcher/miniature painter - Strasbourg (1640/32)
1607-0624 Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer* postal pioneer - Nantes, France (1691/83)
1607-0701 Thomas de Critz* painter - London, England (1653/46)
1607-0712 Jean Petitot* enamel painter - Geneva, Switzerland (1691/83)
1607-0806 Dirck van der Lisse* painter - Den Haag, Netherlands (1669/61)
1607-0926 Francesco Cairo* Italian painter - Milan (1665/57)
1607-1004 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla* dramatist - Toledo, Spain (1648/40)
1607-1105 Anna Maria van Schurman* painter/engraver/scholar - Cologne, Germany (1678/70)
1607-1115 Madeleine de Scudéry* writer - Le Havre, France (1701/93)
1607-1125 Kanō Naonobu* 狩野 尚信 painter - Kyoto, Japan (1650/42)
1607-1129 John Harvard (B) minister/to New England at age 29/a founder of Harvard College - Southwark, Surrey, England (1638/30)
1607-1210 Kjeld Stub* Dano-Norwegian priest - Varberg, Denmark (1663/55)
Updated 17.6.2021
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