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 Media

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  January 5: Pocahontas of the Algonquian tribe meets King James I of England

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  February 27: The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War

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  • The five senses 
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  Richard Lovelace

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  Portrait of John Napier (1550-1617), the inventor of logarithms; dated 1616; presented to the University of Edinburgh by his great granddaughter Margaret, who became Baroness Napier in 1686.

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  Dorothea Maria of Anhalt

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  Saint Francisco Suarez

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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.

January–June

• February 27 – The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia. Sweden gains Ingria and Kexholm.

July–December

• 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.