It associated with the St Rose of Lima Parrish ( website ) and named for Rose of Lima ( 1586 – 1617 ), the first Catholic saint of the Americas.

In 1617, as Emperor Matthias lay dying, his cousin Ferdinand-a fiercely devout Catholic and proponent of the Counter-reformation-was named his successor as Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia.

Rose of Lima, T. O. S. D., ( April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617 ) was the first person native to the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

* Christoph Brouwer ( 1559 – 1617 ), Catholic ecclesiastical historian

Already in the short period between 1610 and 1617 it entered in communion with Rome, and in 1771 the patriarch Eliya Denkha signed a Catholic confession of faith, but no formal union resulted.

His successor, Bishop John V ( Flugi d ' Aspermont, 1601 – 27 ), a saintly and courageous man, endeavoured to restore the Catholic religion, but was compelled to flee three times ( 1607, 1612, and 1617 ), and for several years a bloody war was waged between the Catholics and the Protestants.

He went to the Marshalsea again in 1608, was released in 1614 on bonds of £ 5000 not to leave London, and in 1617 was recommitted to the Tower on the information of his servant, Teige O ' Hurley, alleging his involvement with William Stanley and several exiled Irish Catholic priests and nobles, including Hugh Maguire.

Rose of Lima ( 1586 – 1617 ), the first Catholic saint of the Americas, may have been born on the island.

In reaction to the Protestant Reformation, Eichstätt joined the Catholic League in 1617.

However, conflict was precipitated by two factors: Matthias, already aging and without children, made his cousin Ferdinand of Styria his heir and had him elected king in 1617.

Ferdinand II ( 9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637 ), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor ( 1619 – 1637 ), King of Bohemia ( 1617 – 1619, 1620 – 1637 ), and King of Hungary ( 1618 – 1625 ).< ref >

In 1617, Matthias prevailed on the Bohemian Estates to elect Ferdinand, Duke of Styria, as heir to the throne of Bohemia.

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1578 – 1637 ), who was elected King of Bohemia in 1617 and who would later claim that Frederick had usurped his rightful claim to the throne of Bohemia.

The electoral college also condemned the Bohemian Confederation's attempt to remove Ferdinand from the throne of Bohemia and declared that the 1617 vote of the Estates of Bohemia making Ferdinand King of Bohemia was binding.

He used his wealth to win favour, offering and commanding 200 horses for Archduke Ferdinand of Styria for his war with Venice in 1617, thereby relieving the fortress of Gradisca from Venetian siege.

As viceregent ( místodržící ) of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg ( from 1617 ) he became famous as co-victim, along with Jaroslav Borzita of Martinice, of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague.

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

The town of Uusikaupunki was founded as a town with the rights of commerce in 1617 by decree by Gustav II Adolf.

After 1600 he settled down in Prague as professor and anatomical consultant for Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor ; in 1617 he was elected rector of the Charles University of Prague.

In 1617, these units — along with fänikor from the nearby provinces of Dalarna and Uppland — were organised by Gustav II Adolf into Upplands storregemente, of which six of the total 24 companies were recruited in Västmanland.

In 1617, these units — along with fänikor from the nearby provinces of Dalarna and Västmanland — were organised by Gustav II Adolf into Upplands storregemente, of which eight of the total 24 companies were recruited in Uppland.

********* Lamoral II of Egmont ( d. 1617 ), 6th Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere and Steenhuyze

* William II ( 1617 – 1618 )

George II died in 1617, and Bogislaw became sole ruler.

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

His father, David Ancillon ( 1617 – 1692 ), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin.

François d ' Aguilon ( also d ' Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius ) ( 4 January 1567, Brussels – 20 March 1617, Tournai ), was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect.

In 1617 the British East India Company was given permission by Mughal Emperor Jahangir to trade in India.

The ensuing dispute was only settled in 1617, though both companies were allowed to whale at Jan Mayen in the meantime.

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

According to carbon dating the Canaanite city ( Jericho City IV ) was destroyed between 1617 and 1530 BCE, but rounded as c. 1550 BCE.

In 1617 he accompanied James I to Scotland with a view to persuading the Scots that Episcopacy was preferable to Presbyterianism.

In 1617, by the Treaty of Stolbovo, the northern and western coast was ceded by Russia to Sweden.

The 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso ( 1589 – 1617 ), a Mongolian, was the only non-Tibetan Dalai Lama.

Mustafa I Deli ( 1591 – January 20, 1639 ) (), son of Mehmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.

Elector John Sigismund was favorably inclined towards the Swedish king, but he had become very infirm after an apoplexic stroke in the autumn of 1617.

In Ben Jonson's Lovers Made Men ( 1617 ), " the whole masque was sung after the Italian manner, stilo recitativo ".

In 1617, the Río de la Plata Province was divided into two smaller provinces: Paraguay, with Asunción as its capital, and Río de la Plata, with headquarters in Buenos Aires.

Prospero Alpini ( also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Prosper Alpin ) ( November 23, 1553-February 6, 1617 ), was a Venetian physician and botanist.

On his return, he resided for some time at Genoa as physician to Andrea Doria, and in 1593 he was appointed professor of botany at Padua, where he died on 6 February 1617.

Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 26 June 1688 ) was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists.

The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 – 88 ).

The first clear diagram of a thermoscope was published in 1617 by Giuseppe Biancani: the first showing a scale and thus constituting a thermometer was by Robert Fludd in 1638.

In 1590 it was taken over by a female order of Benedictines from Chełmno, who founded an abbey there in 1617.

Year 1617 ( MDCXVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.