* 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander ( b. 1717 )

* 1717 – Blind Jack, English road builder ( d. 1810 )

* 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist ( d. 1717 )

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

* John Armstrong ( 1717 – 1795 ), born in Fermanagh, United States Congressman

* 1717 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer ( d. 1806 )

* 1717 – Pope Pius VI ( d. 1799 )

* 1717 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian ( d. 1768 )

* 1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat ( d. 1787 )

* 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

* 1717 – David Garrick, British actor ( d. 1779 )

* 1806 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer ( b. 1717 )

* 1717 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1790 )

By the 17th century, Osei Kofi Tutu I ( c. 1695 – 1717 ), with help of Okomfo Anokye, unified what became the Ashante into a confederation with the Golden Stool as a symbol of their unity and spirit.

Henry Middleton ( 1717 – June 13, 1784 ) was a plantation owner and public official from South Carolina.

Henry Middleton was born in 1717 near Charleston, South Carolina to Arthur Middleton ( 1681 – 1737 ) and Susan Amory, on the family plantation, " The Oaks ".

* 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.

* 1717 – Peter III of Portugal ( d. 1786 )

* 1717 – John Collins, American politician ( d. 1795 )

* 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist ( b. 1717 )

* 1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.

Scientists say that a similar earthquake could happen at any time as the interval since 1717 is longer than between the earlier events.

Tordenskiold's first important command was the squadron with which he was entrusted in the beginning of 1717 for the purpose of destroying the Swedish Gothenburg squadron, which interrupted the communications between Denmark and Norway.

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

The hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, celebrated throughout the Protestant areas of Germany, was observed from October 31 to November 1, 1617, but a standard annual observance began much later, sometime after the two hundredth anniversary commemoration in 1717.

Present-day West Bengal first came into prominence when Murshid Quli Jafar Khan became the first Nawab of Bengal under the Mughals in 1717, and moved the capital from Dhaka to the newly founded city of Murshidabad much further to the west and closer to Delhi, the seat of the Mughal Empire.

In a picture of about 1717, it can be seen in a rural setting some miles outside the ( much smaller ) city of London, lined with trees on three sides ( to act as windbreaks ) and with the Russell family's mansion situated at the western end.

Seville lost much of its economic and political importance after 1717, however, when the new Bourbon administration ordered the transfer of the Casa de Contratación from Seville to Cadiz, whose harbour was better suited to transatlantic trade.

The city's first newspaper, the Kentish Post, was founded in 1717.

At Wilhelmshöhe, near Kassel, a colossal version 8. 5 m high produced by Johann Jacob Anthoni, 1713 – 1717, has become the city's mascot.

Castletown house was a milestone in Irish architecture, designed originally by the Italian Alessandro Galilei, circa 1717, in the manner of an Italian town palazzo, for Ireland's most influential man, the politician Speaker William Conolly, it set a new standard and fashion in Irish architecture.

In 1717, Fahrenheit settled in The Hague as a glassblower, making barometers, altimeters, and thermometers.

Addison had signed the appointment papers making the governor's father, John Wentworth, lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire, while it was under jurisdiction of Massachusetts in 1717.

The Habsburg authorities abolished the ancient privileges of the local Slovene populations, as they had already done with a similar system of autonomy in neighboring Tolmin County in 1717.

At the time of David Garrick's birth in 1717, the family was living in the city of Hereford moving to Lichfield, home to Garrick's mother, shortly after his birth.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

In the 18th century the additional Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ), and Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ) were established from portions of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

French Canadian explorers founded Mobile as the first capital of Louisiana in 1702, and took advantage of the war to build Fort Toulouse at the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa in 1717, trading with the Alabama and Coushatta.

New viceroyalties were created for New Granada in 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ) and the Río de la Plata in 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ).

This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.

The town was however kept the Imperials, and was made capital of the County of Gradisca ; later emperor Ferdinand III sold the territory to John Anthony of Eggenberg, whose family held Gradisca until 1717, enlarging and enriching it constantly.

Bienville wrote to the Directors of the Company in 1717 that he had discovered a crescent bend in the Mississippi River which he felt was safe from tidal surges and hurricanes and proposed that the new capital of the colony be built there.