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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1717. 1717 (MDCCXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    1717 Broadway is a skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. At 750 feet (230 m) high, it is the tallest hotel in North America...
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  • Bahamas. He helped to establish the "Republic of Pirates" in Nassau and by 1717 was the captain of one of the most heavily armed ships in the region, called...
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    Marianna "Anna" Leszczyńska (25 May 1699 – 20 June 1717) was the eldest child of Stanisław Leszczyński and Catherine Opalińska. Her sister, Maria Leszczyńska...
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  • This is a summary of the administrative divisions of Russia from 1714-1717. January 26 (January 15 in the Julian calendar), 1714 — Nizhny Novgorod Governorate...
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    Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death...
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    Northern Department by George I of Great Britain in September 1714. Until 1717, he held the position of Northern Secretary and was the de facto leader of...
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    administrative reforms, creating a Governing Senate in 1711, the Collegium in 1717 and the Table of Ranks in 1722 had a lasting impact on Russia, and many institutions...
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  • the administrative divisions of Russia from 1717-1719. December 3 (November 22 in the Julian calendar), 1717 — Astrakhan Governorate was formed on the southern...
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  • 1710s BC (redirect from 1717 BC)
    Decades 1730s BC 1720s BC 1710s BC 1700s BC 1690s BC Years 1719 BC 1718 BC 1717 BC 1716 BC 1715 BC 1714 BC 1713 BC 1712 BC 1711 BC 1710 BC Categories v t...
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  • Transylvania provide the only known evidence for Roman usurper Sponsianus. 1717: Michele Mercati's Metallotheca is published, 124 years after his death....
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  • The Holy League of 1717 was one of many coalitions organised by the Papal States to deal with the Ottoman threat. This last one comprised Portugal, the...
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    of 1717 was the result of a northwesterly storm, which hit the coast area of the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia on Christmas night of 1717. In...
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  • The year 1717 in music involved some significant events. March 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his Weimarer Passion at the chapel of Friedrichstein...
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    a royal proclamation issued by George I of Great Britain on 5 September 1717. It promised a pardon for acts of piracy committed before the following 5...
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  • The year 1717 in science and technology involved few significant events. Thomas Fairchild, a nurseryman at Hoxton in the East End of London, becomes the...
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    cantata, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, premiered in 1714 or 1715. In 1717, Bach eventually fell out of favour in Weimar and, according to a translation...
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  • The 1717 Guatemala earthquake struck colonial Guatemala on September 29 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.4, and a Mercalli intensity of approximately...
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    Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (née Cavendish; 22 October 1661 – 24 December 1715/16, London) was an English noblewoman. Margaret was...
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    David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of...
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    Belgrade or the Turks will take me — Prince Eugene to his generals, 15 August 1717, According to the war order, the infantries under Field Marshal Charles Alexander...
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  • 1717 Arlon, provisional designation 1954 AC, is a binary Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8.5 kilometers in...
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    Matapan, also known as the Battle of Cape Matapan, took place on 19 July 1717 off the Cape Matapan, on the coast of the Mani Peninsula, now in southern...
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  • Colonel Philip Howard (5 March 1629 – September 1717) was a British soldier and politician, the seventh son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire. Howard...
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    The Great Snow of 1717 was a series of snowstorms between February 27 and March 7, 1717 (Gregorian calendar) that blanketed the colony of Virginia and...
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    Sir John Trevor (c. 1637 – 20 May 1717) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons from 1685 to 1687 (the Loyal...
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    French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was made in 1717 and was last produced during the 1840s. However, it still saw limited use...
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    Geneva (1971)(p. 51) Les référentiels des autorités SUDOC. Lefèvre, André (1717-1768), online André Lefèvre on data.bnf.fr André Lefèvre on Wikisource...
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  • Thomas Brand (senior) (c. 1717 – 1770) was an English country landowner of The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire and politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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  • The Triple Alliance was a defence pact signed on 4 January 1717 in The Hague between the Dutch Republic, France and Great Britain, against Bourbon Spain...
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