1617
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
| 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 |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1617 |
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.
[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)