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* 17 March 1776 — establishment of the Bolshoi company, thus laying the foundation of the Bolshoi Theatre
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Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.
Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820.
*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.
On March 17, 1955, she married him at Quartzsite, Arizona, returning with Pole to live in California.
A London production of Anyone can Whistle opened at the Jermyn Street Studio Theatre, London, in association with Primavera Productions, running from March 10, 2010 to April 17, 2010.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.
In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.
Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.
Several other observers found images of the comet in precovery images obtained before March 24, including Kin Endate from a photograph exposed on March 15, S. Otomo on March 17, and a team led by Eleanor Helin from images on March 19.
17 and 1776
On December 17, 1776, Colonel Samuel Griffin of the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River with 600 men — mostly untrained men and boys, and with little equipment — and marched to Mount Holly, where he set up a few " 3-pounder " artillery pieces on Iron Works Hill.
* Congressman Samuel Powell, 1776 – 1841, was a Democratic-Republican Representative from Tennessee from 1815 – 17 ; he also served as a circuit judge in Rogersville.
It was designated as a protected Crown reserve on April 17, 1776 following representations by Soame Jenyns a Member of Parliament in Britain who had the responsibility for the development of Tobago.
After defeating the British in the Siege of Boston on March 17, 1776, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief, brought the Continental Army to defend the strategic port city of New York, then limited to the southern end of Manhattan Island.
The appearance of troops and cannon on Dorchester Heights, above the city, led the British Army to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.
The Siege of Boston ( April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776 ) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War, in which New England militiamen — who later became part of the Continental Army — surrounded the town of Boston, Massachusetts, to prevent movement by the British Army garrisoned within.
The department's boundaries were extended to include Canada in the initial phase of the Invasion of Canada, but Canada was established as a separate department on January 17, 1776.
When the British evacuated Boston on March 17, 1776, Colonel Learned was the first to enter the city.
Langdon Cheves ( pronounced chivis ) ( September 17, 1776 – June 26, 1857 ) was an American politician and a president of the Second Bank of the United States.
Pierre François le Courayer ( November 17, 1681 – October 17, 1776 ) was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England.
Tench joined His Majesty's Marine Forces, Plymouth division, as a Second Lieutenant on 25 January 1776, aged 17.
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline PC ( 7 November 1776 – 17 April 1858 ), was a British barrister and Whig politician.
The Runaway enjoyed 17 performances during its first season at Drury Lane and 39 in London by 1800, a success that encouraged Cowley to write more, even though her mentor Garrick retired after the 1776 season.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos KG, PC ( 20 March 1776 – 17 January 1839 ), styled Earl Temple from 1784 to 1813 and known as The Marquess of Buckingham from 1813 to 1822, was a British landowner and politician.
Matthew Tilghman ( February 17, 1718 – May 4, 1790 ) was an American planter and Revolutionary leader from Maryland, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.
John Neilson ( July 17, 1776 – February 1, 1848 ) was a Scots-Quebecer editor of the newspaper La Gazette de Québec / The Quebec Gazette and a politician.
However the London Chronicle was the first to print the Declaration in full in its August 15 – 17, 1776 edition.
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