The Phenomenon of July 17: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0180  Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago   

0561  In this year, John III starts his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I.   

0656  Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated   

0855  St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope   

0924  Edward the Elder of Wessex and Mercia dies and is succeeded by his son Athelstan, 29, who will reign until 940, continuing his father's conquest of the Danelaw north of the Thames-Lea line from the Vikings who have been in Britain since 787   

0924  Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies.   

1025  Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies   

1054  Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king   

1070  Arnulf III the Hapless is recorded as becoming earl of Flanders   

1070  Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies.   

1203  Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees   

1245  Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time   

1345  Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched   

1393  Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria.   

1429  Dauphin crowned king of France   

1453  1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops   

1453  John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader   

1473  Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen.   

1487  Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah   

1509  Venice recaptures Padua.   

1510  Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies.   

1549  Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium.   

1552  Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun.   

1583  Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk   

1585  English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I   

1596  At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya   

1603  Sir Walter Ralegh arrested.   

1627  Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67.   

1645  Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician.   

1674  Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)   

1682  Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29   

1686  A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.   

1695  Establishment of the Bank of Scotland under an Act of the Scottish Parliament,The Three Estates.   

1702  Johann Schneider, composer.   

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