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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 .

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''

--- Paolo Casati , mathematician

--- 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 c 1595 )

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 c 1563 )

November 10 - Barnabe Rich , English soldier and writer (born c 1540 )

November 22 - Ahmed I , Ottoman Emperor (b. 1590 )

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