1617 (idea)

In the year AD 1617...

• Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria is elected Crown Prince of Protestant Bohemia, and launches a fierce Catholic counter-reformation that sets the stage for the outbreak of the bloody Thirty Years War the following year.

These people were born in 1617...

• Lobsang Gyatso, the fifth Dalai Lama.

These people died in 1617...

• Algonquian princess Pocahontas, of an unspecified illness, at 21 years of age.
• Scottish mathematician John Napier, inventor of the logarithm.

1616 - 1617 - 1618

17th century

How they were made

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• Bohemia
• Dalai Lama
• Algonquian
• Pocahontas
• John Napier
• logarithm
• 1616
• 1618
• 17th century
• How I made the Year Nodes

• Ferdinand II
• Thirty Years War
• Lobsang Gyatso