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...

The year 1617 in science and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Kepler begins to publish his Epitome astronomiæ Copernicanæ setting...

Peter Folger or Foulger (died 1690) was a poet and an interpreter of the American Indian language for the first settlers of Nantucket. He was instrumental...

Stanislaw Krasiński (c. 1558 – 1617) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic). Stanisław was Chorąży of Płock since 1583, castellan of Ciechanów since...

dim sun and yellow fog during this time. King Tang of Shang dynasty China (1617 BC–1588 BC) Johnson, R. Wally (18 December 2013). Fire Mountains of the Islands:...

/ˌpɒk-/; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1617. March 4 – Shrovetide riot of the London apprentices damages the Cockpit...

reconstructed. Marsalforn Tower in Gozo, Malta, is completed (begun c.1614). 1617 – The Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio...

Robert Cromwell (1560–1617) was an English politician who was the father of Oliver Cromwell. He represented Huntingdon in the English House of Commons...

Turkish: I. Ahmed; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the...

Scipios discovered in Rome. The titulus of L. Cornelius is published in 1617 by Giacomo Sirmondo in Antiquae inscriptionis, qua L. Scipionis Barbati,...

Events from the year 1617 in Quebec. Louis Hébert, his wife Marie Rollet and three children settle in Quebec. Hébert becomes the first apothecary in New...

by Marie and her Italian favourites led the young king to take power in 1617 by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini...

first battle occurred in 1610. The second and most famous took place in 1617. The third battle took place in 1624. "Relacion verdadera de la gran vitoria...

historians, was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the...

Beard and the Spanish Armada, including the Battle of Gravelines in 1588. In 1617 Rainbow was rebuilt at Deptford as a great ship (now described as a "second...

Events from the year 1617 in Sweden Monarch – Gustaf II Adolf - The Ordningen för ständernas sammanträden 1617; the Riksdag is given a formal organization...

Sir James Melville (1535–1617) was a Scottish diplomat and memoir writer, and father of the poet Elizabeth Melville. Melville was the third son of Sir...

Events from the year 1617 in art. Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate. Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens...

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, c. 1617, oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek Portraits Child with a bird, 1614 and 1625...

occurred in the year 1617 in Denmark. Monarch – Christian IV 12 October – The Witchcraft Act of 1617 (Danish: Trolddomsforordningen af 1617) is signed into...

Pigott, (b. 20 Dec 1548, married 28 Aug 1572). He was knighted on 22 October 1617 by King James I, during a royal visit to his father-in-law's house at Hinchingbrooke...

1617 Alschmitt, provisional designation 1952 FB, is an assumed carbonaceous asteroid from in the outer parts of the main belt, approximately 30 kilometers...

was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1583 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1721 in what is now the territory of Russia. At the latter date, it was...

The Polish–Swedish War (1617–1618) was a phase of the longer Polish–Swedish War of 1600–1629. It continued the war of 1600–1611 and was an attempt by Sweden...

Press, 1989, p. 101 Heinrich Nollius, Theoria philosophiae hermetica, Hanau, 1617 Heinrich Jamsthaler, Viatorum spagyricum, Frankfurt a. M, Germany, 1625 Lazarus...

were contested: 24 by men and 18 by women. There were a total number of 1617 participating athletes from 149 countries. * = Athletes who ran in preliminary...

alternative site was acquired at Blackwall: the new yard was fully operational by 1617. It was sold in 1656, although for some years East India Company ships continued...

Adams sustained on the way back from Edo after meeting Hidetada. In March 1617, Adams set sail to Cochinchina on a junk ship which he had purchased and...

buildings were later added to the castle complex by Honda Tadamasa from 1617 to 1618. For almost 700 years, Himeji Castle has remained intact, even throughout...