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

* December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )

* Count Magnus Stenbock ( 1663 – 1717 ), Swedish military officer, married Eva Magdalena Oxenstierna

* December 13-Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( born 1717 )

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.

This was then introduced to Europe by two people, Mary Wortley Montagu ( 1689 – 1762, English ), who introduced it to England in 1717, and Aubry de La Mottraye ( 1674 – 1743 ), who introduced it to the Swedish court in 1727.

Count Magnus Gustafsson Stenbock ( Stockholm, August 12, 1664-Copenhagen, February 23, 1717 ) was a Swedish military officer at the time of the Great Northern War.

Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin ( Sunne parish, Jämtlands län 11 September 1717 ( OS ) – Stockholm 13 December 1783 ), Swedish astronomer and demographer.

The canal was begun in about 1717 by royal command, and the work was carried out by Danish soldiers and Swedish POW's.

Henry Sully, writing in Paris in 1717, described the anchor escapement as " an admirable invention of which Dr. Hooke, formerly professor of geometry in Gresham College at London, was the inventor.

In 1717 Hemsterhuis was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Franeker, to replace Lambert Bos, but he did not enter on his duties there till 1720.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, he was the son of Joseph-Sextius Siméon ( 1717 – 1788 ), a professor of Law and royal secretary for the parlement of Provence.

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.

* Elizabeth was born about 1624 and died in Little Compton, Rhode Island on May 31, 1717.

They abandoned all the other vessels ( including the Anne ) they had captured and most of their prisoners at Matinicus on or about May 9, 1717, on Minot's sloop.

By 1717, Petrovskaya Sloboda had grown into the largest settlement in Karelia, with about 3, 500 inhabitants, a timber fort, a covered market, and miniature palaces of the Tsar and Menshikov.

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.

The entire Jewish population of the Commonwealth in that period ( 1618 – 1717 ) has been estimated to have been about 200, 000.

The Thirty Years ' War left his tracks, the plague in the years 1634 / 36 heaped the inhabitants away, disastrous conflagrations led in 1717 and 1742 to gigantic losses and about 1800 it came to the breakdown of the iron trade.

In 1717 he was sent to Egypt and Syria to search for valuable manuscripts, and returned with about 150 very choice ones.

His father, Francis, was a member of the royal council for South Carolina from 1717 till 1757, and at one time its president, and his grandfather, James, came from Scotland about 1700.

Perhaps the most famous anecdote about Marchand is the account of the competition he was supposed to have with Johann Sebastian Bach in Dresden in September 1717.

The nonjurors themselves split about 1717 over the issue of whether to introduce modifications in the Book of Common Prayer.

This incident brought about the civil war that engulfed the Asante Kingdom between 1717 to 1720 The incident split the Kingdom into two and the then united Oyoko-Dako Clan were also divided.

These occurred in approximately 1100, 1450, 1620 and 1717 AD, at intervals between 100 and 350 years.

In 1717 there were two forges operating in the parish, with a combined output of 100 tons.

Connections between the Ugric and many other languages were noticed in the 1670s and established, along with the entire Uralic family, in 1717, although the classification of Hungarian continued to be a matter of political controversy into the 18th and even 19th centuries.

It echoed the oldest known undifferentiated reference to the peaks on or near Gerlachov's municipal lands, Gerlachfalvenses montes ( Latin with Hungarian elements for the " Gerlachov Village Mountains "), in a drawing of the High Tatras from 1717.

Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

He based his claim partially upon a letter discovered in 1717 written in 1514 from Maximilian I to Vasili III, in which the Holy Roman Emperor used the term in referring to Vasili.

It was made independent in 1717 from the Safavid dynasty by the Afghans until 1736 when the Hotaki dynasty was defeated by the Afsharids, which finally became part of the Durrani Empire in 1747.

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

He brought his collection of fossils and stones to the Vatican, where he studied them at leisure, compiling the results in a manuscript, which was published posthumously by the Vatican at Rome in 1717 as Metallotheca.

From 1717 to 1721 Stanhope served as effective First Minister and was a useful political contact for the Pitt family until the collapse of the South Sea Bubble which engulfed the government.

And in 1717, Pierrot's name first appears in an English entertainment: a pantomime by John Rich entitled The Jealous Doctor ; or, The Intriguing Dame, in which the role was undertaken by a certain Mr. Griffin.

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

In 1717 he went to Leipzig, where he was befriended by Johann Burkhard Mencke ( 1674 – 1732 ), who recognized his genius ; and there he published a poem on the peace of Passarowitz ( concluded between the German emperor and the Porte in 1718 ) which acquired him reputation.

In 1717 the Royal Society lent Pound Huygens's 123-foot object-glass, which he set up in Wanstead Park.

1 in Stonington, led to the establishment of a “ northern ” Congregational society in 1717, in which the northern part of Stonington aimed to build its own meeting house.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

In 1717 and 1720, storms flooded Westerburen, which had to be abandoned around 1725, prey to drifting sand and the advancing sea.

Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William ; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716 / 1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fellowships.

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

As a volunteer he served in Dormer's regiment at the Battle of Preston in 1715, spent some time on the Continent, and in 1717 entered Parliament for Seaford in Sussex which he represented until 1722.

In 1717, Arbuthnot contributed somewhat to Pope and Gay's play, Three Hours after Marriage, which ran for seven nights.

Johann David Michaelis ( 27 February 1717 – 22 August 1791 ), a famous and eloquent German biblical scholar and teacher, was a member of a family which had the chief part in maintaining that solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages which distinguished the University of Halle in the period of Pietism.

A collection of the papers which passed between them was published in 1717.

Whilst at Carmarthen he also conducted surveys of the cathedrals of St David's and Llandaff which were published by his friend Browne Willis in 1717 and 1718.