1717

Years: 1714 1715 1716 - 1717 - 1718 1719 1720

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1717 in literature 1717 in music 1717 in science List of state leaders in 1717 List of religious leaders in 1717

Events

• January 4 — The Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance
• March 2 — Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet shown in Drury Lane in Britain The Loves of Mars and Venus
• June 24 — Anglo branch of Freemasonry () founded in London.
• Voltaire is sentenced to Bastille for a year because of his satirical writings
• Spain unites its South American colonies as New Grenada
• Montevideo, Uruguay, founded by Portuguese

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721)

Births

• January 5 — William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman
• January 29 — Jeffrey Amherst, British soldier, conqueror of Quebec
• February 19 — David Garrick, actor
• May 13 — Maria Theresa of Austria
• September 24 — Horace Walpole, English writer
• November 16 — Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist
• December 9 — Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist
• December 27 — Pope Pius VI

Deaths

• March 3 — Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman
• May 10 — John Hathorn, magistrate