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381 Incidents Listed
Death
Jan 17, 1718
Captain Benjamin Church
Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
Birth
Jan 17, 1712
John Stanley
English composer (d. 1786)
Birth
Jan 17, 1706
Benjamin Franklin
American statesman and inventor (d. 1790)
Death
Jan 17, 1705
John Ray
English naturalist (b. 1627)
Birth
Jan 17, 1686
Archibald Bower
Scottish historian (d. 1766)
Birth
Jan 17, 1666
Antonio Maria Valsalva
Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
Death
Jan 17, 1654
Paulus Potter
Dutch painter (b. 1625)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1648
England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
Death
Jan 17, 1617
Faust Vrančić
Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
Birth
Jan 17, 1612
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
English Civil War general (d. 1671)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1608
Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
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Jan 17, 1605
First publication of Don Quixote.
Birth
Jan 17, 1600
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
Death
Jan 17, 1598
Fyodor I Tsar of Russia
(b. 1557)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1595
Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
Other Event
Jan 17, 1562
France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
Birth
Jan 17, 1560
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1524
Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
Birth
Jan 17, 1504
Pope Pius V
(d. 1572)
Birth
Jan 17, 1501
Leonhart Fuchs
German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
Birth
Jan 17, 1484
George Spalatin
German reformer (d. 1545)
Death
Jan 17, 1468
Skanderbeg
Albanian leader (b. 1405)
Birth
Jan 17, 1463
Friedrich III
Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
Other Event
Jan 17, 1377
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
Death
Jan 17, 1369
King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered)
(b. 1328)
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