February 24 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua April 25 Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet April 26 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va May 13 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA May 14 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia June 21 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown June 25 Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia June 30 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published July 7 "God Save the King" is 1st sung
