Editing 1617 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]]
**[[Pocahontas]] and [[Tomocomo]] of the [[Powhatan]] [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] tribe, in the Virginia colony of America, meet [[James VI and I|King James I of England]] as his guests, at the [[Banqueting House, Whitehall|Banqueting House]] at [[Whitehall]].<ref> Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. 1624. Repr. in Jamestown Narratives, ed. Edward Wright Haile. Champlain, VA: Roundhouse, 1998, p. 261.</ref>
**''[[The Mad Lover]]'', a play by [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], is given its first performance. 
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Stolbovo]] ends the [[Ingrian War]] between [[Sweden]] and [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]. Sweden gains [[Swedish Ingria|Ingria]] and [[Priozersk|Kexholm]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Conrad Bussow|author2=Edward Orchard|title=Disturbed State of the Russian Realm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1sBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA222|date=19 April 1994|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-6457-2|pages=222|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] &ndash; On [[Shrove Tuesday]], angry rioters burn down [[London]]'s [[Cockpit Theatre]] because of its increase in the price of admission to its plays. Three rioters are killed when the actors at the theater defend themselves.<ref>  Elizabeth McClure Thomson, The Chamberlain Letters (London, 1966), p. 140.</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Francis Bacon]] is appointed as [[Lord Keeper of the Great Seal]] of England and is designated by King James I to serve as regent during the time that the King of England is away from Westminster to travel to Scotland. 
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Pocahontas]] (Rebecka Rolfe), daughter of the Chief of the [[Powhatan]] Algonquian tribe in the English colony of Virginia and the wife of English colonist [[John Rolfe]], dies of [[smallpox]] after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America. She is buried at [[Gravesend]]. <ref>Charles Dudley Warner, ''Captain John Smith (1579–1631), Sometime Governor of Virginia, and Admiral of New England: A Study of His Life and Writings'' (Henry Holt and Company, 1881) p. 237 ("Yet there is no doubt, according to a record in the Calendar of State Papers, dated '1617 29 March, London,' that her death occurred March 21, 2017." </ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 14]] &ndash; Second [[Battle of Playa Honda]]: The [[Spain|Spanish]] navy defeats a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] fleet in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Philippine Journal of Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubcqAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|page=754|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; The town of [[Uusikaupunki]] ({{langx|sv|Nystad}}, lit. "New Town") was founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus|Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]].<ref>[https://uusikaupunki.fi/kaupunki-ja-hallinto/tietoa-uudestakaupungista/yleista-uudenkaupungin-historiasta Yleistä Uudenkaupungin historiasta] (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Encouraged by [[Charles de Luynes|Charles d'Albert]], seventeen-year-old [[Louis XIII]], king of France, forces his mother [[Marie de Medici]], who has held ''de facto'' power, into retirement and has her favourite, [[Concino Concini]], assassinated.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Appelbaum|title=Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ix_uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-874576-1|pages=17–}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[James VI and I|King James I]] of [[England]] is escorted by [[Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home|the Earl of Home]] across the border to return to [[Scotland]] (where he reigns as King James VI) for the first time since the [[Union of the Crowns]] 14 years earlier in 1603. He is given lodging at Home's [[Dunglass Castle, East Lothian]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; Portuguese Christian Missionary João Baptista Machado de Távora is killed, becoming the first of the [[205 Martyrs of Japan]].
* [[May 24]] &ndash; King James VI of Scotland authorizes the Scottish East India Company, led by [[James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn|Lord Glencairn]] to trade to the East Indies, the Levant, Greenland, Muscovy and all other islands in the north, north-west and north-eastern seas. James VI is advised that the authorization is not in conflict with charters granted by him in his capacity as King James I of England to England's East India Company, the Levant Company, and the Muscovy Company.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Eliya VIII]] becomes the new [[Patriarch of the Church of the East]] and leader of the [[Church of the East|Christians of Mesopotamia]]. 
* [[May 27]] &ndash; In Germany, the Prince-Bishops of Bamberg, Eichstädt and Würzburg, and the Prince-Provost of Ellwangen, withdraw their states from the [[Catholic League (German)|Catholic League]].
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], Archduke of Inner Austria, is elected [[King of Bohemia]]. Ferdinand's forceful Catholic counter-reformation causes great unrest, amongst the Protestants and moderates in Bohemia.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Willem Schouten]] and the crew of the Dutch ship ''Eendracht'' return to the Netherlands after [[circumnavigation world record progression|sailing around the world]] in two years and 17 days, in what is only the fourth circumnavigation of the globe, and the first since 1588. The expedition had departed from [[Texel]] on June 14, 1615 under the command of [[Jacob Le Maire]], who died on December 22, 1616, slightly more than six months before the return to the Netherlands. <ref>''An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook'' (Harper & Brothers, 1837) p. 100</ref>
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The secret [[Oñate treaty]] is signed in [[Vienna]] between representatives of King [[Philip III of Spain]] reached an agreement with the junior Habsburg branch of [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Ferdinand II]] of Austria, the heads of two different branches of the [[House of Habsburg]]. Spain's Ambassador to Austria, [[Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate]] signs on behalf of King Philip. 
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The [[Sharp Resolution]] is passed in the [[States of Holland and West Friesland]], authorizing city governments to create their own mercenary armies, the ''waardgelders'', to maintain public order.
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[James VI and I|King James of England and Scotland]] returns to England after having spent three months in Scotland, arriving at [[Wharton, Cumbria]]. 
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The "[[Fruitbearing Society]]" (''Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft'') of German scholars is founded in [[Weimar]]. 
* [[September 1]] – The weighing ceremony of [[Jahangir]] is described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court, [[Sir Thomas Roe]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan)|title=The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_QNAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – The [[Peace of Busza]] is signed, between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 9]] – The [[Treaty of Pavia]] is signed between [[Spain]] and Savoy, under which [[Savoy]] returns [[Monferrato]] to [[Mantua]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Olaf Asbach|author2=Peter Schröder|title=The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D8vOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-04135-1|pages=179–}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – The coronation ceremony of [[Gustavus Adolphus|King Gustav Adolf]] of [[Sweden]] takes place in [[Stockholm]], almost six years after he succeeded to the throne.
* [[November 17]] – A naval battle between the [[Sicily|Sicilians]] and [[Venice|Venetians]] ends inconclusively.
* [[November 22]] – [[Mustafa I]] succeeds [[Ahmed I]], as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[December 15]] – [[Sir Thomas Roe]], a representative of England's [[British East India Company|East India Company]], arrives in [[Ahmedabad]] at India's Mughal Empire, and seeks an audience with the Emperor, [[Shah Jahan]]. The Emperor receives Roe in an audience three weeks later, on January 6. 
* [[December 24]] – An unexpected storm strikes off the coast of [[Finnmark]] in [[Norway]], sinking 10 ships and drowning at least 40 people. A little more than three years later, Mari Jørgensdatter tells interrogators that she and several other witches caused the storm, prompting the [[Vardø witch trials (1621)|Vardø witch trials]].
* [[December 30]] – [[Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton|Lord Clifton]] is imprisoned at the [[Tower of London]] for threatening [[Francis Bacon]], [[Lord Chancellor]]. Clifton is prosecuted by the [[Star Chamber]] on March 17 and eventually commits suicide in Fleet Prison.

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* 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]].
* ''[[The Book of Swindles]]'', a collection of short stories on fraud in the late Ming dynasty, is published.</onlyinclude>