Page 2: Historical Events In October - 17

1720  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer   

1725  John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton).   

1729  Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer.   

1730  Ernestus Weinrauch, composer   

1734  Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II   

1740  Ivan VI is recorded as becoming Czar of Russia   

1748  French troops lift siege of English at Pondicherry, India   

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76.   

1777  British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY   

1777  British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY.   

1781  Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.   

1787  Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities.   

1797  Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France.   

1800  Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England.   

1805  Napoleon breaks camp at Boulogne, proceeds by forced marches into Germany, forces the surrender October 17 at Ulm of a 30000-man Austrian army under Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich, 53, and caps the victory by taking Vienna.   

1806  Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.   

1806  Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist.   

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies.   

1808  Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw   

1811  Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich).   

1814  London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.   

1815  Napoleon arrives in St Helena   

1815  Emanuel Geibel, writer   

1817  Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)   

1825  1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris   

1825  Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71.   

1829  Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened.   

1829  Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens   

1831  Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres   

1837  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58.   

1844  Miguel Nieto, composer.   

1845  Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library   

1848  William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball   

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39   

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1253  On October - 17 birth of ivo of Kermartin, ]])   

1563  Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer was born on October - 17.   

1577  On this day in history birth of cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)   

1582  Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.   

1623  On October - 17 birth of francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)   

1626  Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt) was born on October - 17.   

1688  Domenico Zipoli, composer was born on October - 17.   

1696  On this day in history birth of august III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen   

0532  On October - 17 boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies   

1174  Death of Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) on this day in history.   

1312  On October - 17 jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies   

1552  On this day in history andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53   

1586  On this day in history philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32   

1616  On October - 17 death of john Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)   

1638  On this day in history death of gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63   

1660  Death of Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) on this day in history.