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1617 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1617; MDCXVII
Ab urbe condita	2370
Armenian calendar	1066; ԹՎ ՌԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6367
Balinese saka calendar	1538–1539
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); 4314 or 4107; — to —; 丁巳年 (Fire Snake); 4315 or 4108
Coptic calendar	1333–1334
Discordian calendar	2783
Ethiopian calendar	1609–1610
Hebrew calendar	5377–5378
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1673–1674
- Shaka Samvat	1538–1539
- Kali Yuga	4717–4718
Holocene calendar	11617
Igbo calendar	617–618
Iranian calendar	995–996
Islamic calendar	1025–1027
Japanese calendar	Genna 3; (元和３年)
Javanese calendar	1537–1538
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3950
Minguo calendar	295 before ROC; 民前295年
Nanakshahi calendar	149
Thai solar calendar	2159–2160
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年; (male Fire-Dragon); 1743 or 1362 or 590; — to —; 阴火蛇年; (female Fire-Snake); 1744 or 1363 or 591

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1590s; 1600s; 1610s ; 1620s; 1630s;
Years:	1614; 1615; 1616; 1617 ; 1618; 1619; 1620;

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1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday 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. As of the start of 1617, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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, 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 – The weighing ceremony of Jahangir is described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court, Sir Thomas Roe.
September 23 – The Treaty of Busza is signed, 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–March

January 6 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (d. 1697)
January 22 – Lodewijck Neefs, Flemish painter (d. 1649)
January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman (d. 1683)
January 30
- Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712)
- William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish engraver, painter (d. 1673)
February 22 – Robert Culliford, English politician (d. 1698)
March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681)
March 17
- David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (d. 1692)
- Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653)

April–June

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 (d. 1655)
May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period (d. 1674)
June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656)
June 18 – George Evelyn, English politician (d. 1699)
June 20 – Franciscus Bonae Spei, French Catholic scholastic theologian, philosopher (d. 1677)

Deaths

January–March

January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
January 6 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1561-1592 as the consort of Duke William (b. 1546)
January 16 – Wolf Dietrich Raitenau, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1559)
January 17 – Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
January 28 – Karl II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Oels and Duke of Bernstadt (b. 1545)
February 3 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist from the Republic of Venice (b. 1553)
February 8 – Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician and earl (b. 1561)
February 11 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (b. 1555)
February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian (b. 1549)
March 1 – Edward Hoby, English politician (b. 1560)
March 20 – François d'Aguilon, Belgian Jesuit mathematician (b. 1567)
March 21 – Pocahontas, Algonquian (indigenous American) princess (b. c. 1595)
March 27 – George II, Duke of Pomerania, non-reigning Duke of Pomerania (b. 1582)

April–June

April 1 – Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, English politician (b. 1558)
April 4 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
May 3 – Aleixo de Menezes, Portuguese Catholic archbishop (b. 1559)
May 7
- David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (b. 1564)
- Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (b. 1553)
May 11 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (b. 1551)
May 16 – Nicolas de Montmorency (b. 1556)
May 29 – Roger Owen, English politician (b. 1573)
June 20 – Raja Wodeyar I, King of Mysore (b. 1552)
June 27 – Jerome Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1549)

July–September

July 8 – Leonora Dori, French noble (b. 1571)
July 9 – John Herbert, Welsh politician (b. 1550)
July 13 – Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn, Duke of Teschen (b. 1574)
July 18 – Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (b. 1570)
August 7 – Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel, Administrator of Hersfeld Abbey (b. 1594)
August 8 – Frederick IV of Fürstenberg, German noble (b. 1563)
August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
August 24 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
August 28 – William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham, English baron (b. 1584)
September 9 – Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, German bishop (b. 1545)
September 25
- Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1571)
- Francisco Suárez, Spanish Jesuit priest (b. 1548)
September 27 – Johan Ernst van Nassau-Siegen, Dutch general (b. 1582)
September 30 – Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (b. 1551)

October–December

October 10 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer (b. 1553)
October 11 – François Vranck, Dutch statesman and justice (b. 1555)
October 14 – Isaac Arnauld, French noble (b. 1566)
October 19 – David Hoeschel, German librarian (b. 1556)
October 27 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. c. 1563)
October 31 – Alphonsus Rodriguez, Spanish Jesuit lay brother, saint (b. 1532)
November 10 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer (b. c. 1540)
November 12 – Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, secretary of state under four kings of France (b. 1543)
November 17 – Princess Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1591)
November 22 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1590)
October 22 – Matthias Hafenreffer, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1561)

Date unknown

Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (b. 1542)

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