Editing 1607 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
*[[October 4]] &ndash; [[Flight of the Earls]]: The Earl of Tyrone and the Earl of Tyrconnell, along with their followers, reach the European continent, landing on St. Francis' Day at Quilleboeuf in France with 99 people.<ref>Tadhg Ó Cianáin, ''[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100070/index.html The Flight of the Earls]'' (1609)</ref> after having departed Rathmullan in Ireland on September 12. 
*[[October 27]] &ndash; [[Halley's Comet]] is seen by [[Johannes Kepler]].
*[[November 7]] &ndash; A Dutch warship commanded by Admiral [[Cornelis Matelief de Jonge]] arrives at the Malay Peninsula to attempt opening trade with the [[Pahang Sultanate]], and get Pahang's assistance in the Dutch Navy's fight against the Portuguese Navy in Asian trade. [[Abdul Ghafur Muhiuddin Shah of Pahang|Sultan Abdul Ghafur]] agrees to assistance in return for Dutch technical assistance.<ref>William Linehan, ''History of Pahang''  (Malaysian Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society, 1973)</ref>
*[[November 9]] &ndash; King [[Philip III of Spain]] announces that his government had run out of money and that it is suspending payments on its foreign debts.<ref>Paul C. Allen, ''Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598–1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy'' (Yale University Press, 2000)</ref> effectively declaring the state bankrupt. The decision in the wake of the destruction of most of the ships of Spain's Navy at the April 25 Battle of Gibraltar.
*[[November 15]] &ndash; [[Flight of the Earls]]: After the departure from Ireland of [[Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone]] and [[Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell]], along with 90 of their followers, King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland issues a proclamation "that the flight of the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconell, with some others of their fellowes out of the North parts of our Realme of Ireland; these men's corruption and falshood, whose hainous offences remaine so fresh in memorie since they declared themselves so very monsters in nature, as they did not only whithdraw themselues from their personall obedience to their Soveraigne, but were content to sell over their Native Countrey to those that stood at that time in the highest termes of hostilitie with the two Crownes of England and Ireland... we doe hereby professe in the worde of a King, that... notwithstanding all that they can claime, must be acknowledged to proceed from meere Grace upon their submission after their great and unnaturall Treasons", and must forfeit their rights and possessions as nobles.<ref>[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E600001-002/index.html "A Proclamation touching the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconnell"]</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; Captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]] and nine men depart the Jamestown Colony on a barge in order to get more corn for the English fort. Sailing up the [[Chickahominy River]], the boat reaches a settlement of the [[Appomattoc]] tribe at Apocant. While Smith, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery are further upstream in a canoe, George Casson is captured at Apocant by [[Opchanacanough]], brother of Chief [[Powhatan (Native American leader)|Powhatan]]. Robinson and Emery are killed while Smith is away from their camp, and Smith is soon taken prisoner by Opchancanough and, on January 5, is delivered to Powhatan at [[Werowocomoco]] for execution. After an intervention by Powhatan's daughter, [[Pocahontas]], Smith is released a month after his capture.<ref>"Smith, John (1580–1631)", by Edward Arbab, in ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' (R.S. Peale, 1892) p. 175</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; A fleet of 13 Dutch warships under the command of Admiral [[Pieter Willemsz Verhoeff|Pieter Verhoeff]] departs the Netherlands on an expedition to the Indian Ocean to open trade with Asian nations and to fight hostile resistance. Verhoeff never returns, and he and many of his crew will be ambushed and killed on May 22 at the [[Banda Islands]] in [[Indonesia]].