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 "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
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)