Pope's choice of new ' hero ' for the revised Dunciad, Colley Cibber, the pioneer of sentimental drama and celebrated comic actor, was the outcome of a long public squabble that originated in 1717, when Cibber introduced jokes onstage at the expense of a poorly received farce, Three Hours After Marriage, written by Pope with John Arbuthnot and John Gay.

* 1717 – Pope Pius VI ( d. 1799 )

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.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

* August 29 – Pope Pius VI a Roman Catholic clergyman ( b. 1717 )

Pope Pius VI ( 25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799 ), born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, was Pope from 1775 to 1799.

Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior ( 1646 – 1717 ), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith ( née Turner ) ( 1643 – 1733 ), who were both Catholics.

* Holy League ( 1717 ), an ad hoc coalition organised by the Pope allying the Papal States to Portugal, Venice and Malta against the Ottoman Empire and which resulted in the Battle of Matapan

In 1717, Pope explained his theory of the pastoral in the Discourse on Pastoral Poetry.

Others attempt the task, but none succeed like Leonard Welsted ( who had satirized Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot's play Three Hours after Marriage in 1717 ), for he goes in swinging his arms like a windmill ( to splash all with mud ): " No crab more active in the dirty dance ,/ Downward to climb, and backward to advance " ( II 296-7 ).

* Eloisa to Abelard, a 1717 poem by Alexander Pope

It is here that Maria Theresia was baptised by the Papal Nuntius Spinola as the representative of Pope Clemens XI on 15 May 1717 with baptismal water containing a few drops from the River Jordan.

Published in 1717, Eloisa to Abelard is a poem by Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ).

" Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady " is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717.

At the Prince's urging, Augustus the Strong employed Veracini to play chamber music at his court, later transferring him to the official Dresden payroll as violinist in August 1717.

In 1717 José Antón, Attorney General of the Marquisate of Elche, repeated this last idea, but added a miraculous aspect: the arrival on a beach of Elche of a mysterious ark in May, 1266, containing the image of the Virgin of the Assumption and the Consueta ( the book that contains the text and occasionally the music of the play ).

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

* 1717: Three Hours After Marriage, with others

In January 1717 he produced the comedy, Three Hours after Marriage, which was grossly indecent without being amusing and a failure.

Three Gelug abbots of the Lhasa area appealed to the Zunghar Khanate, which invaded Tibet in 1717, deposed Lhazang Khan's pretender to the position of Dalai Lama, and killed Lhazang Khan and his entire family.

The first of Law's controversial works was Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor ( 1717 ), a contributions to the Bangorian controversy on the high church side.

" Two years after his tutoring had begun, he was sent to the Lower Grammar School at Växjö in 1717.

He studied at Munich, and at an early age joined the Canons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology and philosophy.

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 Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

Although George I ( 1714 – 1727 ) attended Cabinet meetings at first, after 1717 he withdrew because he did not speak English and was bored with the discussions.

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 ).

The second but eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Archduchess Maria Theresa was born early in the morning of 13 May 1717, at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna, shortly after the death of her elder brother, Archduke Leopold, and was baptised on that same evening.

In 1717, her husband was expelled from court after a family row.

Archimandrite Minas Tigranian, after completing his secret mission to Persian Armenia ordered by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great stated in a report dated March 14, 1717 that the patriarch of the Gandzasar Monastery, in Nagorno Karabakh, had under his authority 900 Armenian villages.

The town of Dover, named after the town of Dover in England's Kent, was finally laid out in 1717, and became the capitol of Delaware in 1777.

Around the time of the American Revolution, Milltown became more commonly known as Downingtown after the prominent businessman Thomas Downing, a Quaker immigrant in 1717 from Bradninch, Devon, England, who owned a number of those mills.

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.

The city got its current name on July 16, 1717, in honor of the Virgin of Carmen, believed to be the protector of the island, when the Spanish forces, commanded by Alonso Felipe de Andrade evicted the pirates from the island and took control the city after a long period of occupation.

He wrote his Reflexions upon Exile, and in 1717, his letter to Sir William Wyndham in explanation of his position, generally considered one of his finest compositions, but not published till 1753 after his death.

What is nowadays known as the Two Guineas coin was first minted in 1664, in England, when it had a nominal value of forty shillings and it was known as a forty-shilling piece, then it was later called a double-guinea or two guinea piece, worth forty-two shillings after the Proclamation of 1717 finally settled the value of a guinea.

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.

Zemun and the southeastern Syrmia were conquered by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1717, after the Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Peterwardein ( 5 August 1716 ) and through the Treaty of Požarevac ( German: Passarowitz ) became a property of the Schönborn family.

When the rebellion of 1715 broke out, he refused to sign the paper in which the bishops of the province of Canterbury declared their attachment to the Protestant accession, and in 1717, after having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he began to correspond directly with James Francis Edward Stuart.

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.

The codex is named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1717.

In July 1717 Wettstein returned to take the office of a curate at large ( diaconus communis ) at Basel, a post which he held for three years, after which he became his father's colleague and successor in the parish of St Leonard's.

During the occupation of Serbia by the Austrians ( between 1717 and 1739 ), it was converted into a Roman Catholic church ; but after the Ottomans retook Belgrade, it was returned to its original function.