1717 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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Historical Event(s)

– The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
– A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
– 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.
– 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.
– Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
– 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 On ?

– William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
– Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
– Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
– David Garrick, British actor (d. 1779)
– Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
– Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
– Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
– Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
– Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)
– Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)