The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

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.

Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834

All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness — but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work.

File: Painting of Brontë sisters. png | Branwell Brontë, Painting of the 3 Brontë Sisters, l to r Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë.

Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell.

The Brontë sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication: Charlotte was Currer Bell, Emily was Ellis Bell and Anne was Acton Bell.

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

* 1820 – Anne Brontë, British author ( d. 1849 )

* Charlotte Brontë, as well as her sister Anne Brontë, display a belief in phrenology in their works.

* September 24 – Branwell Brontë, painter and poet, brother of novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne ( b. 1817 )

* Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë publish Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, respectively, in one volume under the pen names of Ellis Bell and Acton Bell.

* May 28 – Anne Brontë, English author ( b. 1820 )

* January 17 – Anne Brontë, English author ( d. 1849 )

** Patrick Brontë, Irish Anglican curate and writer ; father of writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë ( d. 1861 )

Anne Brontë published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall under the name Acton Bell.

# Anne Marie (; 23 May 1593 9 February 1600 )

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953 / 1955 ) is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817 ), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad.

Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (; born December 20, 1933 ) is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002.

Marine Le Pen (; born Marion Anne Perrine Le Pen ; 5 August 1968 ) is a lawyer by profession, a French right-wing politician and the president of the Front National ( FN ), the third-largest political party in France, since 16 January 2011.

Anne, Duchess of Brittany ( 25 January 1477 – 9 January 1514 ), also known as Anna of Brittany (; ), was a Breton ruler, who becamme queen to two successive French kings.

Patrick Branwell Brontë (; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848 ) was a painter, and writer and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

Rachel Anne Maddow (; born April 1, 1973 ) is an American television host, political commentator, and author.

Lake Sfânta Ana (;, meaning " Saint Anne Lake " in both languages ) is the only crater lake in Romania located in the volcanic crater named " Puciosul " ( Büdös-hegy or Stinky Mountain ) of the Eastern Carpathians, near Tuşnad in the Natural Reserve of Mohoș, Harghita County, Romania.

Santana (; from Portuguese Santa Ana, meaning Saint Anne ) is a municipality along the northern coast of the archipelago of Madeira

Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (; born December 10, 1977 ) is a Canadian film and television actress.

Anne Mroczkowski (; born July 16, 1953 ) is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor.

* 1706 17 February – Queen Anne though not yet the legal ruler of the territory, declared Gibraltar a free port ( upon request of the Sultan of Morocco, who wanted Gibraltar being given this status in return for supplying the town )

Anne " Ninon " de l ' Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos ( 10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705 ) was a French author, courtesan and patron of the arts.

Anne Abercromby ( d. 17 September 1844 )

* September 17 – Anne Bancroft, American actress ( d. 2005 )

* October 17 – Anne Crawford, British actress ( b. 1920 )

* May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( d. 1860 )

* August 17 – Anne Lefèvre, French scholar ( b. 1654 )

* May 17 – The five men accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn, including her own brother George Boleyn, are executed.

May 17: Anne of Denmark.

* May 17 – Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.

Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband Prince George of Denmark but none of them will survive childhood and she will die without heir to enable the Hanoverian Succession.

On March 17, 2011, Duke University spokesman Karl Bates announced that the archives will move to Duke, with Anne E. Pusey, Duke's chairman of evolutionary anthropology, overseeing the collection.

The men were executed on 17 May, and on the same day Cranmer declared Henry's marriage to Anne invalid, a ruling which bastardized their daughter, Princess Elizabeth.

* Anne of York ( 16 April 1470 – c. 17 April 1470 ), born and died in a ship off Calais.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

Anne was crowned on 17 May 1590 in the Abbey Church at Holyrood, the first Protestant coronation in Scotland.

Louis and Anne of Cyprus had 17 children, 4 of whom died young:

In June a special commission for Fisher's trial was issued, and on Thursday, 17 June, he was arraigned in Westminster Hall before a court of seventeen, including Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn's father, and ten justices.

In 1536 his first son, Thomas ( later 4th Duke of Norfolk ), was born, Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey.

At age 17 Anne married Major John Pryor, a wealthy Richmond resident in his early 60s.