This article is about the year 1617.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s |
Years: | 1614 1615 1616 – 1617 – 1618 1619 1620 |
1617 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1617 MDCXVII |
Ab urbe condita | 2370 |
Armenian calendar | 1066 ԹՎ ՌԿԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 6367 |
Bengali calendar | 1024 |
Berber calendar | 2567 |
English Regnal year | 14 Ja. 1 – 15 Ja. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2161 |
Burmese calendar | 979 |
Byzantine calendar | 7125–7126 |
Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4313 or 4253 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4314 or 4254 |
Coptic calendar | 1333–1334 |
Discordian calendar | 2783 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1609–1610 |
Hebrew calendar | 5377–5378 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1673–1674 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1539–1540 |
- Kali Yuga | 4718–4719 |
Holocene calendar | 11617 |
Igbo calendar | 617–618 |
Iranian calendar | 995–996 |
Islamic calendar | 1025–1027 |
Japanese calendar | Genna 3 (元和3年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3950 |
Minguo calendar | 295 before ROC 民前295年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2159–2160 |
Year 1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February 27 – The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia. Sweden gains Ingria and Kexholm.
- April 14 – Second Battle of Playa Honda: The Spanish navy defeats a Dutch fleet in the Philippines.
- April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, the seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.
- June 5 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Inner Austria, is elected King of Bohemia. Ferdinand's forceful catholic counter-reformation causes great unrest amongst the Protestants and moderates in Bohemia.
July–December
- September 1 – Weighing ceremony of Jahangir. Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.
- September 23 – Treaty of Busza between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- October 9 – The Treaty of Pavia is signed between Spain and Savoy, under which Savoy returns Monferrato to Mantua.
- November 17 – A naval battle between the Sicilians and Venetians ends inconclusively.
- November 22 – Mustafa I succeeds Ahmed I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Date unknown
- At least seven women are sentenced to death by burning for witchcraft at the Finspång witch trial in Sweden.
- Giambattista Andreini's play The Penitent Magdalene is published in Mantua.
Births
- January 6 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
- January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe (d. 1697)
- January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, painter (d. 1649)
- January 30 – Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712)
- January 30 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
- February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, engraver, painter (d. 1673)
- February 22 – Robert Culliford (MP), English politician (d. 1698)
- March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681)
- March 17 – Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653)
- April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681)
- April 20 – Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet, English landowner and politician (d. 1670)
- May 3 – Roger Pepys, English lawyer and politician(d. 1688)
- May 9 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)
- May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
- June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Daimyo (d. 1674)
- June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1657)
- June 18 – George Evelyn, English politician (d. 1699)
- June 20 – Franciscus Bonae Spei, Catholic scholastic theologian and philosopher (d. 1677)
- July 31 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer born in Seville (d. 1684)
- August 10 – Richard Ingoldsby, English politician (d. 1685)
- August 13 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (d. 1688)
- August 25 – Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon (d. 1667)
- September 3 – Roshanara Begum (d. 1671)
- September 13 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (d. 1676)
- September 25 – Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1662)
- September 29 – Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, Prince-Bishop of Speyer (d. 1675)
- October 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English countess (d. 1684)
- October 10 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English nobleman (d. 1684)
- October 12 – Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1680)
- October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian artist (d. 1689)
- October 28 – Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1690)
- October 28 – Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne (d. 1679)
- November 4 – Johannes Hoornbeek, Dutch theologian (d. 1666)
- November 6 – Leopoldo de' Medici, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
- November 16 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1677)
- November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
- December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
- December 4 – Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1693)
- December 9 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657)
- December 22 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (d. 1680)
- December 23 – Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Crown Princess of Denmark (d. 1668)
- December 25 – Jean de Coligny-Saligny, French noble and army commander (d. 1686)
- date unknown
- Paolo Casati, mathematician (d. 1707)
- Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama (d. 1682)
Deaths
- January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
- January 12 – Hidoshi No Hattori, Japanese Conqueror (b. 1532
- January 17 – Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
- February 6 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553)
- March 21 – Pocahontas, Algonquian Indigenous princess (b. c. 1595)
- April 4 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
- April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
- May 7 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (b. 1564)
- August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
- August 30 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
- September 25 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
- October 27 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. c. 1563)
- November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c. 1540)
- November 22 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1590)