1617

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Year 1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1617

January - June

February 27 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia. Sweden gains Ingermanland and Karelia.
April 14 - Second Battle of Playa Honda

July - December

October 9 - The Treaty of Pavia is signed between Spain and Savoy, under which Savoy returns Monferrato to Mantua.
November 17 - Inconclusive naval battle between Sicilians and Venetians

Undated

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed I (1603-1617) to Mustafa I (1617-1623).
Francesco Andreini's The Penitent Magdalene is published.
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor closes some Protestant churches.

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 (died 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 Indian princess (born c1595)
April 4 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
April 5 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 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 (born c1563)
November 10 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (born c1540)
November 22 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1590)

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