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A collection of world events between 1492 and 1859, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. Please refer to the Guide
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NE ?? ?? 1556 Oct 17 Ex-emperor Charles V departs Netherland for Spain EU Se Ay 1604 Oct 17 Johannes Kepler discovers last confirmed supernova in our galaxy
FR Sc Gv 1662 Oct 17 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (£320,000)
EU Cf Ei 1676 Oct 17 Poland and Turkey sign Treaty of Zurawno, ending the second phase of the Polish–Ottoman War
EU Sc Md 1707 Oct 17 German composer Johann Sebastian Bach marries his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach
FR Me Th 1720 Oct 17 Pierre de Marivaux ’s Arlequin Poli Par l’Amour premieres in Paris
AS Sc Gv 1740 Oct 17 Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
NA Cf Ar 1777 Oct 17 Americans win after British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
NA Cf Ar 1781 Oct 17 George Washington takes Yorktown, Charles Cornwallis defeated
NA Sc Ed 1787 Oct 17 Boston blacks petition legislature for equal school facilities IT Cf Fv 1797 Oct 17 Treaty of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
SA Sc Gv 1800 Oct 17 Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England EU Sc Gv 1808 Oct 17 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw AT Mv Rl 1815 Oct 17 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in St. HelenaFR Me Mu 1825 Oct 17 Franz Liszt ’s operetta Don Sanche premieres in Paris
NA Sc Gw 1829 Oct 17 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal formally opens
EU Sc Lc (Supposed) murder attempt of abandoned German mystery-boy Kaspar Hauser
EU Me Mu 1831 Oct 17 Felix Mendelssohn ’s first Piano concerto in G premieres in Munich
NA Sc Gv 1835 Oct 17 Resolution creating the Texas Rangers is approved
NA Sc Gw 1850 Oct 17 Knickerbocker Engine Company Number 5 organizes in San Francisco
NA Se Iv 1855 Oct 17 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
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