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| 1607 |
| | | The earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel sail from Ireland with their families, in the event known as the Flight of the Earls | |
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| 1607 |
| | | Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown | |
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| 1607 |
| | | The Jamestown settlers meet an unfriendly reception from the local Powhatan Indians, having to use their muskets to beat off an attack within two weeks of their arrival | |
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| 1608 |
| | | The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completes an altarpiece in Rome which is an early masterpiece of the baroque | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A lucky accident reveals the principle of the telescope to a spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey. In the Dutch town of Middelburg | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A second false Dmitry marches on Moscow, to be followed by a third in 1612 | |
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| 1608 |
| | | Quebec is founded by Samuel de Champlain as a centre for the French fur trade | |
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| 1608 |
| | | Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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| 1608 |
| | | John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief | |
|  | Map of Virginia featuring an image of Pocahontas, 1608
National Archives, Kew
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