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Historical Events In May - 17

Thursday, 28 March 2024

1673  On May - 17 louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1678  On May - 17 king Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1691  On May - 17 antoine Court, French reformed theologist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1695  On this day in history cornelis de Heem, painter, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1712  On May - 17 maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1727  On this day in history catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1729  On this day in history samuel Clarke, theologian, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1732  Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1733  On this day in history england passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1733  England passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported by the colonies from countries that were not British possessions on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1741  John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6] on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1742  Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1744  On this day in history french army takes Austrian Netherlands  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1749  Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1750  Tax revolt in Gorinchem on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1750  On this day in history -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1756  On May - 17 britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1756  On May - 17 the French and Indian War starts today when England declares war on France  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1757  War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1768  On this day in history caroline, Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1775  In Philadelphia Pennsylvania, US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada. (I wonder what we did?) on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1775  American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1787  On May - 17 english slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1792  On May - 17 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1792  On May - 17 the New York Stock Exchange formed today by 24 merchants at 70 Wall Street  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1792  24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1793  On May - 17 in Alberta, Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1794  On this day in history hard frost in southern New England  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1794  On this day in history anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1796  On May - 17 martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao (christen slaves)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1796  On this day in history jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1800  Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1803  John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1803  On this day in history robert Smith Surtees, novelist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In May - 17

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1155  Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) was born on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1443  On May - 17 birth of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1444  Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1451  Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1490  Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia was born on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1551  On May - 17 birth of martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1551  Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601) was born on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1568  Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer was born on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 17

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1050  On May - 17 guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1189  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1336  On May - 17 death of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1365  On this day in history death of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1395  Death of Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1464  Death of Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427) on May - 17.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1510  Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1521  On May - 17 death of edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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