Editing 1617 (section)

=== 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>