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
Bahá'í calendar	-227–-226
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	丙辰年十一月廿四日 (4253/4313-11-24) — to — 丁巳年十二月初四日 (4254/4314-12-4)
Coptic calendar	1333–1334
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
Iranian calendar	995–996
Islamic calendar	1025–1027
Japanese calendar	Genna 3 (元和3年)
Korean calendar	3950
Minguo calendar	295 before ROC 民前295年
Thai solar calendar	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)
• May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
• October 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland
• November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
• December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
• December 22 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
• date unknown
  • Paolo Casati, mathematician
  • Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama

Deaths

• January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
• 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)