Sweden gains new areas in 1617 (Ingria in yellow, Kexholm in gray)

In the year 1617, with the Treaty of Stolbovo, Sweden gains Ingria and Kexholm from Russia (Feb 27), the Spanish navy defeats a Dutch fleet in the Philippines (Apr 24), a naval battle between the Sicilians and Venetians ends inconclusively (Nov 17), at least seven women are sentenced to death by burning for witchcraft in Sweden –  and all these fine people were born:

1617-0119 Lucas Faydherbe* Flemish sculptor/architect - Mechelen (1697/80)
1617-0122 Lodewijck Neefs* Flemish Baroque painter - Amberes, Belgium (1649?/c.32)

1617-0202 Jan Thomas van Ieperen* Flemish Baroque painter/ draughtsman/engraver - Ypres, Flanders (1673/56)

1617-0308 Tito Livio Burattini* inventor/ instrument-maker/ Egyptologist - Agordo, Italy (1681/64)

1617-0404 Sir James Wharton* soldier/astrologer/poet – Westmorland, England (1681/64)

1617-0523 Elias Ashmole* antiquary/astrologer – Lichfield, Staffordshire, England (1692/74)

1617-0618 George Evelyn* politician - Surrey, England (1699/82)

1617-0731 Nicolás Antonio* bibliographer - Sevilla, Spain (1684/66)

1617-0813 Johannes Andreas Quenstedt* theologian - Quedlinburg, Germany (1688/70)

1617-0903 Roshanara Begum* Mughal princess/poet - Burhanpur, India (1671/54)

1617-1017 Dionisio Lazzari* sculptor/architect - Naples, Italy (1689/71)

1617-1104 Johannes Hoornbeek* theologian - Haarlem, Spanish Netherlands (1666/48)
1617-1119 Eustache Le Sueur* painter - Paris, France (1655/37)

1617-1209 Richard Lovelace* poet - England (1657/40)

Updated 22.3.2021
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