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).

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Events of 1617

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1617

January - June

★ February 27 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia.

★ 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.

★ February 27 - Peace is reached between Russia and Sweden with the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War. Sweden gains Ingermanland and Karelia.

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''

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★ Paolo Casati, mathematician

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★ Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama
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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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