1607

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.

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

1607 in other calendars

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

Births

• 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)