1617

This article is about the year 1617.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1617 in other calendars

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

1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1617th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 617th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1610s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1617 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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)