"Science and knowledge will strengthen faith in God, not weaken
it." - Juana Inez de la Cruz
Born in 1717:
Died in 1717:
Events of 1717:
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Johann Sebastian Bach is arrested by his employer, Duke Wilhelm
Ernst in Weimar, for visiting relatives in a city controlled by Wilhelm's
rival.
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Parliament passes the Act of Grace pardoning the participants
of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, except for the MacGregor clan.
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Governor Antoine Cadillac returns home to France after hearing
of his recall by King Louis XV (rather, his regent, the dic d'Orleans).
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When he arrives in France, he is thrown in the Bastille.
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(March), interim governor L'Epinay arrives in Mobile. Cadillac
has messed thingsup so badly that no-one will obey him, only former governor
Jean Baptiste Bienville.
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(August) Antoine Crozat relinquishes his charter for Louisiana.
As Scottish banker John Law has control of most of France's finances,
his Compagnie des Indies is granted exclusive rights.
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(August) Meanwhile, L'Epinay gives up and returns home.
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Law and Orleans reinstate Bienville, who decides to have a new capital built in honor of his benefactor.
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George I acts to rid the seas of piracy:
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Austria continues its war against The Ottoman Empire.
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The Spanish establish a mission in Natchitoches.
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The Southern Tuscarora Indians sign a treaty with Virginia defining their
lands.
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Swedish king Charles XII, having lost all of the Sweden's overseas possessions,
begins peace negotiations with Russia to end the Geat Northern War.
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Polish king Augustus II's disagreements with the Sejm nearly start
a civil war. Augustus, who is also Elector of Saxony, calls in his ally,
Russia. 18,000 Russian troops surround the Sejm and dictate a Russian
protectorate over Poland.
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Afghan noble Mahmud Shah murders his uncle and becomes governor of Kandahar.
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Georg Friederic Handel composes some Water Music for
George I's barge trip on the Thames.
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A Dzungar Mongol army occupies Lhasa.
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Mughal Emperor Farukh Siyar grants the British East
India Company a Firman for unrestricted trade at Bombay.
1716 - 1717 - 1718
How they Were Made - 18th Century