1717 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1717?
- January 4, 1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
- March 2, 1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
- March 31, 1717 – A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- June 24, 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
- July 17, 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.
- August 22, 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
- September 29, 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
Who Were Born In The Year 1717?
- January 5, 1717 – William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
- January 28, 1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
- January 29, 1717 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
- February 2, 1717 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
- February 19, 1717 – David Garrick, British actor (d. 1779)
- May 13, 1717 – Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780)
- June 19, 1717 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
- June 20, 1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
- July 5, 1717 – Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
- August 13, 1717 – Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
- August 15, 1717 – Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)
- September 4, 1717 – Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)
- September 22, 1717 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
- September 24, 1717 – Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
- October 5, 1717 – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
- November 16, 1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
- December 9, 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768)
- December 16, 1717 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)
- December 20, 1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
- December 27, 1717 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
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