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* [[May 23]] – [[Elias Ashmole]], English antiquarian (d. [[1692]]) |
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* [[June 2]] – [[Maeda Toshitsugu]], Japanese |
* [[June 2]] – [[Maeda Toshitsugu]], Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (d. [[1674]]) |
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* [[June 13]] – [[Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1656]]) |
* [[June 13]] – [[Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1656]]) |
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* [[June 18]] – [[George Evelyn (1617–1699)|George Evelyn]], English politician (d. [[1699]]) |
* [[June 18]] – [[George Evelyn (1617–1699)|George Evelyn]], English politician (d. [[1699]]) |
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| 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 |
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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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- September 23 – The Peace 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.[3]
- 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 daimyō 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)
July–September
- 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, English noble (d. 1667)
- September 3 – Roshanara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1671)
- September 13 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (d. 1676)
- September 25 – Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament of (d. 1662)
- September 29 – Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, Prince-Bishop of Speyer (1652–1675) (d. 1675)
October–December
- 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, English Member of Parliament (d. 1680)
- October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1689)
- October 28
- Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit priest, polemical author (d. 1690)
- Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne, French poet (d. 1679)
- November 4 – Johannes Hoornbeek, Dutch theologian (d. 1666)
- November 6 – Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
- November 16 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1659–1677) (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, Italian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1707)
- Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama (d. 1682)
Deaths
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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)
References
- ^ Robert Appelbaum (2015). Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642. Oxford University Press. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-0-19-874576-1.
- ^ Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) (1999). The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
- ^ Olaf Asbach; Peter Schröder (March 23, 2016). The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War. Routledge. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-1-317-04135-1.