1717
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Events
- January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance
- March 2 — Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain shown in Drury Lane The Loves of Mars and Venus
- March 31 – Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying that God favors churches with no government.
- June 24 — Anglo branch of Freemasonry (UGLE) founded in London.
- December 24/25 A desastrous storm flood hits the North Sea coast between the Netherlands and Danmark. Thousands die or loose their housings. (German article on this flood)
- Voltaire is sentenced to Bastille for a year because of his satirical writings
- Spain unites its South American colonies as New Grenada
- Montevideo, Uruguay, founded by Portuguese
Ongoing events
Births
- January 5 – William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
- January 29 – Jeffrey Amherst, British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (d. 1797)
- February 19 – David Garrick, English actor (d. 1779)
- May 13 – Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
- September 24 – Horace Walpole, British writer (d. 1797)
- November 16 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. 1783)
- December 9 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
- December 27 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
Deaths
- March 3 – Pierre Allix, French protestant clergyman (b. 1641)
- May 10 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
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