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10/17/0532
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Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Type: Event
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10/17/0532
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Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
Type: Death
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10/17/0733
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Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden
Type: Event
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10/17/1312
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Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
Type: Death
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10/17/1387
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Swells convent Windesheim initiated
Type: Event
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10/17/1404
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Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII
Type: Event
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10/17/1415
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Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
Type: Event
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10/17/1469
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Crown prince Fernando of Arag˘n marries princess Isabella of Castili
Type: Event
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10/17/1483
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Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain
Type: Event
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10/17/1492
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Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
Type: Event
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10/17/1552
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Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
Type: Death
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10/17/1556
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Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain
Type: Event
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10/17/1563
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Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1577
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Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1586
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Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32
Type: Death
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10/17/1626
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Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1638
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Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
Type: Death
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10/17/1651
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Future King Charles II flees from England
Type: Event
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10/17/1688
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Domenico Zipoli, composer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1691
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New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
Type: Event
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10/17/1696
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August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen
Type: Birth
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10/17/1702
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Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
Type: Death
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10/17/1704
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Willem Bentinck, orangist
Type: Birth
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10/17/1707
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German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
Type: Event
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10/17/1711
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Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry (Complete Works)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1720
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Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1720
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Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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10/17/1725
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John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1729
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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1730
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Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1734
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Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II
Type: Birth
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10/17/1740
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Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
Type: Event
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10/17/1740
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Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
Type: Death
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10/17/1763
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Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
Type: Death
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10/17/1777
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British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
Type: Event
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10/17/1781
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Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
Type: Event
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10/17/1787
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Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
Type: Event
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10/17/1797
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Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
Type: Event
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10/17/1800
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Dutch colony Curaao transfered to England
Type: Event
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10/17/1806
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Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
Type: Death
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10/17/1806
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Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
Type: Birth
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10/17/1808
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Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
Type: Event
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10/17/1811
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Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1813
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Georg Bchner, German playwright (Dantons Tod/Woyzeck)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1815
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Napoleon arrives in St Helena
Type: Event
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10/17/1815
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Emanuel Geibel, writer
Type: Birth
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10/17/1817
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Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1817
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Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
Type: Birth
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10/17/1825
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1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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10/17/1825
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Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
Type: Death
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