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...

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...

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

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

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:...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Riksdag of the Estates (Swedish: Riksens ständer; informally Swedish: ståndsriksdagen) was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled...

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...

/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...

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

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...

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...

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

served as Bishop of Guardialfiera (1617–1624). Giovanni Dominico Giaconi was born in Lecce, Italy in 1580. On 9 January 1617, he was appointed during the papacy...

NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617. Kind, Amy (26 February 2009). "Review of Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617. Mitchell-Yellin...

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

continued to receive the King's favour, which led to his appointment in March 1617 as temporary Regent of England (for a period of a month), and in 1618 as...

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...

John O'Molony (1617 – 3 September 1702) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Killaloe from 1671 and as Bishop of Limerick during...

Events in the year 1617 in Norway. Monarch: Christian IV. 24 December - Eastern Finnmark suffered a terrible storm. A great majority of the male population...

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...

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...

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...

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