In the year 1717, the first ballet in Britain takes place at the Theatre Royal in London (Mar 2), Spain concludes its conquest of Sardinia (Oct 30), six men from the wrecked Whydah Gally are hanged in Boston for piracy and robbery (Nov 15), the Charleville musket enters service in France, Tatar invasions in Transylvania devastate many towns - and all these fine people were born:
1717-0118 Jean-François-Marie de Surville* merchant captain with the French East India Company – Port-Louis, Brittany, France (1770/53)
1717-0203 Nicholas Cooke* first governor of Rhode Island - Providence, Colony of Rhode Island, British America (1782/65)
1717-0219 David Garrick* actor/theater manager/producer - Hereford, Herefordshire, England (1779/61)
1717-0308 Jakob Haartman* Finnish clergyman/Bishop of Turku/ Godfather of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf - Stockholm, Sweden (1788/70)
1717-0409 Georg Matthias Monn* organist/composer/music teacher - Vienna, Austria (1750/33)
1717-0410 Isaac de Pinto* merchant/banker/investor - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1787/70)
1717-0513 Maria Theresa* Holy Roman Empress – Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria (1780/63)
1717-0605 Emanuel Mendes da Costa* botanist/ philosopher/collector of manuscripts - London, England (1791/73)
1717-0705 Peter III of Portugal* (b Pedro António) co-monarch with Queen Maria I - Lisbon, Portugal (1786/68)
1717-0815 John Metcalf* civil engineer/road builder - Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1810/92)
1717-0908 William Pownall* merchant/ship builder with involvement in slave voyages/Mayor of Liverpool - Acton by Nantwich, Cheshire, England (1768/48)
1717-0913 Axel Gabriel Leijonhufvud* baron/one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music - Säter, Sweden (1789/71)
1717-0918 Jacob Reinhold de Pont* Finnish manor owner/founder of the Åvik glass factory/descendent of the French huguenots - Uppsala, Sweden (1788/70)
1717-0922 Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin* astronomer/demographer - Sunne, Sweden (1783/66)
1717-1005 Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle* mistress of King Louis XV of France - Paris, France (1744/27)
1717-1030 Jonathan Hornblower* pioneer of steam power - Staffordshire, England (1780/63)
1717-1116 [Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert](http://Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert)* mathematician/ mechanician/philosopher - Paris, France (1783/65)
1717-1130 Anders Hellant* astronomer/physicist/ industrialist - Pello, Sweden-Finland (1789/71)
1717-1209 Johann Joachim Winckelmann* historian/archaelogist - Stendal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire (1768/50)
Updated 27.5.2022-1
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