Significant 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 "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
Historical Events
1717 in Music
- Jul 17 George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the river Thames in London
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
World Leaders in 1717
George I
King
Peter the Great
Russian Tsar
Famous People in 1717
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Virtuoso & Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'AlembertFamous Deaths
- Mar 3 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
- 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)
- May 10 John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)