Events in the year 1617 in Norway.

Incumbents Monarch: Christian IV.

Events 24 December - Eastern Finnmark suffered a terrible storm. A great majority of the male population was out at sea at that time and were surprised by the storm, ten boats sank and forty men drowned.The witch-hunt in early modern Finnmark(Rune Blix Hagen. Acta Borealia, Volume 16, Issue 1 1999, pages 43 – 62)]

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Full date unknown Niels Claussøn Senning, bishop (born c. 1580).

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