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Bartholomew Gosnold
1607Aug, 22

Bartholomew Gosnold

Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
Bartholomew Gosnold (1571 – 22 August 1607) was an English barrister, explorer, and privateer, who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod. He is considered by Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) to be the "prime mover of the colonization of Virginia".

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Events on 1607

  • 30Jan

    Bristol Channel floods, 1607

    An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
  • 24Feb

    Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
  • 25Apr

    Battle of Gibraltar (1607)

    Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
  • 5Oct

    Paolo Sarpi

    Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.