Historical Events
- Jan 4 Netherlands, Great Britain & France sign Triple Alliance
- Jan 5 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
- Jan 14 German mob leader and thief "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
- Feb 1 Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
- Mar 2 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
- Mar 31 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy
- Jun 24 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
- Jul 17 George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the River Thames in London
- Jul 28 Prussian king Frederik Willhelm I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
- Aug 1 Nicholas Rowe is appointed British Poet Laureate by George I
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1717 in Music
- Jul 17 George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the River Thames in London
Did You Know?
Did You Know?English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides 1st record of Blackbeard's appearance, and the source for his name
On December 5, 1717
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert
Pius VIFamous People in 1717
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian BachWorld Leaders in 1717
George I
Peter the Great
Famous People Who Died in 1717
- Mar 3 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
- Mar 8 Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
- Mar 19 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
- Apr 3 Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
- Apr 5 Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
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