Editing 1607 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 13]] &ndash; The Bank of Genoa fails.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[San Agustin Church, Manila]], is officially completed; by the 21st century it will be the oldest church in the [[Philippines]].
* [[January 30]] &ndash; Coastal flooding around Britain, probably a [[storm surge]], including [[Bristol Channel floods, 1607|Bristol Channel floods]] in which a massive wave sweeps along the [[Bristol Channel]], killing an estimated 2,000 people.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2007/01/30/somerset_flood_1607_anniversary_feature.shtml|title=The great flood of 1607: could it happen again?|last=BBC staff|date=24 September 2014|publisher=BBC Somerset|access-date=20 February 2008|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bryant|first1=Edward|last2=Haslett|first2=Simon|year=2002|url=http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/science-and-the-environment/geography/Tsunami/archaeology-in-the-severn-estuary-2003-paper.pdf|title=Was the AD 1607 Coastal Flooding Event in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel (UK) Due to a Tsunami?|journal=Archaeology in the Severn Estuary|issue=13|pages=163–7|access-date=2010-09-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616185829/http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/science-and-the-environment/geography/Tsunami/archaeology-in-the-severn-estuary-2003-paper.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-16}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Claudio Monteverdi]]'s ''[[L'Orfeo]]'', the earliest fully developed [[opera]] in the modern-day repertoire, premieres at the Ducal Palace of [[Mantua]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Clarke|author2=Eric Clarke|title=Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aYcGG9ZrFpwC&pg=PA345|date=28 July 2011|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-162558-9|pages=345}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; Battle of Gol in [[Gojjam]]: [[Susenyos I|Susenyos]] defeats the combined armies of [[Yaqob]] and [[Abuna]] Petros II, which makes him [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].