In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 17th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day ( 30 November ).

In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.

The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to Stephen I of Hungary by Sylvester in the year 1000 ( hence the reign title ' Apostolic King ') is noted by the 19th century historian Lewis L. Kropf as a possible forgery of the 17th century.

* Last year ( 17th ) of yongyuan era and start of yuanxing era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2017th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation ; the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century ; and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

This date is consistent with the statement that Jotham of Judah began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC (), and that Jotham's successor Ahaz began to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC ().

It grossed $ 485, 734 ($ 16, 749 per screen ) in its opening weekend, and earned $ 39. 9 million in its entire run, making the film the 17th highest-grossing picture of the year.

Cato is represented to have said, that he served his first campaign in his 17th year, when Hannibal was overrunning Italy.

Plutarch, who had the works of Cato before him, but was careless in dates, did not observe that the estimation of Livy would take back Cato's 17th year to 222, when there was not a Carthaginian in Italy, whereas the computation of Cicero would make the truth of Cato's statement in harmony with the date of Hannibal's first invasion.

The revival of baronetcies can be dated to Sir Robert Cotton's discovery in the late 16th or early 17th century of William de la Pole's patent ( issued in the 13th year of Edward III's reign ), conferring upon him the dignity of a baronet in return for a sum of money.

Barnes Common is the site of the Barnes Fair, held each year in the first week of July and organised by the Barnes Community Association ( BCA ), with their headquarters in Rose House, a distinctive 17th century pink-painted building on Barnes High Street.

Langdon, on the 17th of September, in the year following, made the first entry of land recorded in the county, being the east half of the quarter named.

In the previous year, on the 17th of November 1970 at 03: 47 Universal Time the Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 made a soft landing in the mare, at latitude 38. 28 N, and longitude 35. 00 W. It was carrying the Lunokhod 1 remote-controlled rover, which was successfully deployed and undertook a mission lasting several months.

In Manchester during the 17th century the Kersal Moor Whit races were the great event of the year when large numbers of people turned the area into a giant fairground for several days.

Squadrons assigned to the 5th MG are the 5th Munitions, Detachment 1 ( Formerly 5th Munitions, Fiscal year 2010 will change to 17th Muns ), 5th Maintenance Squadron, 5th Maintenance Ops Squadron and 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.

* 1988 Evan Mecham, Governor of Arizona, was scheduled for a recall election on May 17th of that year, after a successful petition drive ( 301, 000 signatures ).

In Poland, for example, it was commonly a few days per year per household in the 13th century ; one day per week per household in the 14th century ; four days per week per household in the 17th century and six days per week per household in the 18th century.

The rites of March started on the fist with the ceremony of the ancilia movere, developed through the month on the 14th with Equirria in the Campus Martius ( and the rite of Mamurius Veturius marking the expulsion of the old year ), the 17th with the Agonium Martiale, the 19th with the Quinquatrus in the Comitium ( which correspond symmetrically with the Armilustrium of October 19 ), on the 23rd with the Tubilustrium and they terminated at the end of the month with the rite of the ancilia condere.

Esarhaddon then proceeded to invade Egypt proper in Taharqa's 17th regnal year, after Esarhaddon had settled a revolt at Ashkelon.

With total passenger traffic of more than 37. 3 millions for the year 2011, it was the 30th busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and the 17th busiest in the world in terms of international passenger traffic, ranking just below Rome-Fiumicino Airport.

In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.

The development of strong administrative structures, in particular those related to extraction of taxes, is closely associated with the intense warfare between predatory European states in the 17th and 18th centuries, or in Charles Tilly's famous formulation: " War made the state and the state made war ".

Loyalist murals often refer to historical events dating from the war between James II and William III in the late 17th century, whereas Republican murals usually refer to the more recent troubles.

During the 17th century, the Algonquians and Hurons fought a bitter war against the Iroquois.

The death of Ivan's sons marked the end of the ancient Rurik Dynasty in 1598, and in combination with the famine of 1601 – 03 led to the civil war, the rule of pretenders and foreign intervention during the Time of Troubles in the early 17th century.

As early as the late 17th century, it had been discovered that small amounts of alcohol could be added to sake before pressing to extract aromas and flavors from the rice solids, but during the war, pure alcohol and glucose were added to small quantities of rice mash, increasing the yield by as much as four times.

In the 15th century and again in the 17th, civil war erupted.

In the 17th century, Oldenburg was a wealthy town in a time of war and turmoil and its population and power grew considerably.

During the 17th century Bhutan maintained close relations with Ladakh, and assisted Ladakh in its 1684 war with Tibet.

By the 17th century, Canterbury's population was 5, 000 ; of whom 2, 000 were French-speaking Protestant Huguenots, who had begun fleeing persecution and war in the Spanish Netherlands in the mid-16th century.

Free Blacks, who were the majority of Black Bermudians in the 17th century, were threatened with enslavement as an attempt to encourage their emigration, and slave owners were encouraged to export enslaved Blacks ( with all slaves seen, like horses on an archipelago with dense forests and few roads, as a status symbol ) whenever a war loomed, as they were portrayed as unnecessary bellies to feed during times of shortage ( even before abandoning agriculture for maritime activities in 1684, Bermuda had become reliant on food imports ).

The war revealed the limitations of Britain's fiscal-military state when it had powerful enemies, no allies, depended on extended and vulnerable transatlantic lines of communication, and was faced for the first time since the 17th century by both Protestant and Catholic foes.

According to the fourth century Italian writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon, the story continues as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.

Early restoration work to repair war damage was carried out during the 17th and 18th centuries.

First recorded as the site of an inn in the 16th century, Stromness became important during the late 17th century, when England was at war with France and shipping was forced to avoid the English Channel.

The centre of Wallingford has the feel of a typical old market town, with a large open town square around the war memorial, the 17th century arcaded town hall, and numerous shops.

Granville Allen, a member of the 17th Kentucky Infantry, was one of the first Union soldiers to die in the war, in a skirmish on October 29, 1861.

Thanks to its strategic situation the town grew from the beginning of the 17th century to be the homeport for the Dutch war fleet.

The 15th to 17th century was a bad time for the city as the region was plagued with war and religious and political strife.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, a barn was built over the " war cemetery ".

In the 17th century when the objects of a war were, as far as possible, secured without the loss of valuable lives and general decisive battles were in every way considered undesirable, a brilliant victory over a part, not the whole, of the enemy's forces was the tactical idea of the best generals.

Thus, though Condé's genius appeared far more versatile, Turenne's genius best represents the art of war in the 17th century.

During the 17th and early 18th centuries, the British colonies had developed traditions of popular self-government while enjoying the benign neglect of Britain, which was preoccupied by civil war and other problems.

The Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire.