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Flight of the Earls
1607Sep, 4

The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.

The Flight of the Earls (Irish: Teitheamh na nIarlaí) took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and about ninety followers, left Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe. Their permanent exile was a watershed event in Irish history, symbolizing the end of the old Gaelic order.

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    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.
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    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

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