Year
1717 (
MDCCXVII) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of
January - June
- January 4 - The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance
- February 1 - Silent Sejm in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Beginning of Russian Empire increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth.
- February 26-March 6 - What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region.
- March 2 - Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain shown in Drury Lane The Loves of Mars and Venus
- March 31 - Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying that God favors churches with no government.
- April 26 - The Whydah Gally, flagship of "Black Sam" Bellamy, is wrecked in a storm off Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The Whydah sinks with a reputed four and a half tons of treasure on board, and all but two of her crew are lost, including Bellamy.
- June 24 - The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the 'Modern' and first Free-Masonic Grand Lodge (which later was merged with the Antient Grand Lodge of England in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
July - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- January 2 - Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset, son of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset and Mary Webb (died 1792)
- January 5 - William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, British statesman (died 1793)
- January 21 - Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Spanish military officer (died 1779)
- January 23 - Benjamin Beddome, English Baptist minister and hymnist (died 1795)
- January 28 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (died 1774)
- January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (died 1797)
- February 2 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (died 1790)
- February 17 - Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher (died 1799)
- February 19 - David Garrick, English actor (died 1779)
- February 27 - Johann David Michaelis, German biblical scholar and teacher (died 1791)
- April - Pieter Barbiers, Dutch artist (died 1780)
- April 9 - Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (died 1750)
- May 8 - Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles, husband of Madame de Pompadour (died 1799)
- May 13 - Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, married with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1780)
- June 5 - Emanuel Mendez da Costa, English botanist (died 1791)
- June 8 - John Collins, American politician (died 1795)
- June 19 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (died 1757)
- June 20 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (died 1776)
- June 27 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (died 1799)
- July 5 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (died 1786)
- August 13 - Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti, French military leader (died 1776)
- August 15
- Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (died 1806)
- John Metcalf, English roadbuilder (died 1810)
- September 4 - Job Orton, English dissenting minister (died 1783)
- September 7
- A-kuei, Chinese noble general for the Ch'ing dynasty (died 1797)
- Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (died 1791)
- September 22 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (died 1783)
- September 24 - Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, British writer (died 1797)
- September 28 - William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (died 1781)
- October 5 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1744)
- October 13 - John Armstrong, American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War (died 1795)
- October 30 - Jonathan Hornblower, English pioneer of steam power (died 1780)
- November 13 - Prince George William of Wales, member of the British Royal Family (died 1718)
- November 16 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
- November 17 - Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich, British peeress (died 1794)
- November 25 - Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1777)
- December 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (died 1768)
- December 16 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (died 1806)
- December 20 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (died 1785)
- December 25 - George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (died 1790)
- December 27 - Pope Pius VI (died 1799)
- December 28 - Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi, leading German Kameralist in the 18th century (died 1771)
- date unknown
- Giambattista Almici, Italian jurist (died 1793)
- Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, French philanthropist (died 1773)
- Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island (died 1782)
- Jean-François-Marie de Surville, French trader and navigator (died 1770)
- Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner, cartographer and geologist (died 1778)
- Antoine Guenée, French priest and Christian apologist (died 1803)
- Elimelech of Lizhensk, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and one of the great Hassidic Rebbes of the past (died 1577)
- Henry Middleton, second President of the Continental Congress (died 1784)
- James Paine, English architect (died 1789)
- Isaac de Pinto, Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin (died 1787)
- Anne Steele, hymn-writer (died 1778)
- Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician born in Rothesay (died 1785)
- Molla Panah Vagif, Azerbaijani poet (died 1797)
- William Williams Pantycelyn, one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival (died 1791)
- See also .
Deaths
- January 13 - Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them (born 1647)
- February 23 - Magnus Stenbock, Swedish military officer (born 1664)
- March 3 - Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (born 1641)
- March 5 - François de Callières, member of the Académie française (born 1645)
- March 8 - Abraham Darby I, first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (born 1678)
- March 19 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (born 1636)
- April 3 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (born 1640)
- April 5 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)
- April 11 - Abraham ben Saul Broda, Bohemian Talmudist
- April 26 - John King, 18th century pirate
- May 10 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (born 1641)
- May 20 - John Trevor, English Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1637)
- June 3 - Fernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva, duque de Linares, Spanish nobleman and military officer
- June 9 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (born 1648)
- July 17 - Juan María de Salvatierra, Catholic missionary to the Americas (born 1648)
- August
- William Blathwayt, civil servant and politician
- William Cochrane, Scottish MP in the British Parliament
- August 30 - William Lloyd, born at Tilehurst (born 1627)
- September 17 - Robert Cotton, English politician (born 1644)
- October - Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1661)
- October 22 - Henry Luttrell (Colonel) shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin.
- October 26 - Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, English mistress of James II of England (born 1657)
- November 21 - Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter (born 1650)
- November 26 - Daniel Purcell, English composer (born 1664)
- December 4 - William Hamilton, surgeon in the British East India Company
- December 5 - Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, English politician (born 1654)
- date unknown
- Jane Wiseman, English actress, poet and playwright (born ca. 1682)
- Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic (born 1670)
- William Diaper, English poet of the Augustan era (born 1685)
- Wang Hui, Chinese landscape painter (born 1632)
- Osei Kofi Tutu I, founder of the Ashanti Confederacy
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, Scottish nobleman
- Jan Dobrogost Krasiński, Polish nobleman (szlachcic)
- Niccolao Manucci, Italian writer and traveller (born 1639)
- Empress XiaoHui, second Consort of the Qing Dynasty Shun Zhi Emperor of China (born 1641)
- See also .
Upper Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC | 9th millennium BC | 8th millennium BC
- 7th millennium BC | 6th millennium BC | 5th millennium BC
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During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
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Western European
"Dark Ages" applied later to this period
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The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval.
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- Construction begins on the first church at the monastery of Cluny.
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-1710- 1711 1712 1713 1714 . 1715 . 1716 . 1717 . 1718 . 1719 . 1720
In science: 1707 1708 1709 -1710- 1711 1712 1713
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See also: 1716 in Canada, other events of 1717, 1718 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Events
- Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western
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1717 | 1718 | 1719 Events from the year
1717 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Events
..... Click the link for more information. Ashanti Confederacy -
Osei Kofi Tutu I, Asantehene (1701-1717) Maniampon, Regent (1717-1720) Bunyoro - Olimi III, Omukama of Bunyoro (c.1710-1731) Dahomey - Agadja, King of Dahomey (1708-1732) Ethiopia
..... Click the link for more information. Angola - - João Manuel de Noronha, Governor of Angola (1713-1717)
- Henrique de Figueiredo e Alarcão, Governor of Angola (1717-1722)
- Macau - D.Francisco de Alarcao Sotto-Maior, Governor of Macau (1714-1718)
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