1617
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1617 (MDCXVII) was the 617th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1617, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Art and culture
- The term "cult" first appeared in English in 1617, derived from the French culte, meaning "worship" which in turn originated from the Latin word cultus meaning "care, cultivation, worship".
- James I creates the one-way street in England.
- Finspång witch trial
Literature
Fiction
- Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda by Cervantes
- Les Aventures du baron de Faeneste by Agrippa d'Aubigné
Non-fiction
- Atalanta Fugiens, an alchemical emblem book by Michael Maier
- Utriusque Cosmi Maioris by Robert Fludd
- An Itinerary: Containing His Ten Years Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland by Fynes Moryson
Visual art
- Capricci di varie figure by Jacques Callot
- The black plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris, Robert Fludd
Music
Architecture
Births
- Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo, (1617 – after 1646), Italian conjoined twins who toured in 17th-century Europe.
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (1617 – 1682)
Deaths
- Hendrik Goltzius (1558 - 1617), Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter
- Prospero Alpini (1553 - 1617), a Venetian physician and botanist
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