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447 Events for 'February 17' in the Database.

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02/17/0364 Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32
Type: Death
02/17/0956 Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55
Type: Death
02/17/1370 Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
Type: Event
02/17/1444 Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist
Type: Birth
02/17/1490 Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)
Type: Birth
02/17/1519 Fran‡ois de Guise, [Balafr‚], French general strategist (Calais)
Type: Birth
02/17/1568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
Type: Event
02/17/1583 J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist
Type: Birth
02/17/1598 Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
Type: Event
02/17/1600 Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake
Type: Death
02/17/1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48
Type: Death
02/17/1612 Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57
Type: Death
02/17/1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
Type: Event
02/17/1634 William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
Type: Event
02/17/1652 Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67
Type: Death
02/17/1653 Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi)
Type: Birth
02/17/1654 Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62
Type: Death
02/17/1667 Georg Bronner, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1670 France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
Type: Event
02/17/1673 Moliare, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French author (Learned Lady), dies
Type: Death
02/17/1675 Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1676 Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty
Type: Event
02/17/1688 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
Type: Death
02/17/1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
Type: Event
02/17/1696 Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1697 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1699 Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)
Type: Birth
02/17/1714 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
Type: Event
02/17/1715 Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68
Type: Death
02/17/1723 Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
Type: Birth
02/17/1732 Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63
Type: Death
02/17/1740 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
Type: Birth
02/17/1747 Narciso Casanovas, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1752 Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
Type: Birth
02/17/1754 Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1758 John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
Type: Birth
02/17/1772 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria
Type: Event
02/17/1774 Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
Type: Birth
02/17/1776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published
Type: Event
02/17/1781 Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)
Type: Birth
02/17/1791 Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
Type: Event
02/17/1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
Type: Event
02/17/1796 Giovanni Pacini, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1796 James Macpherson, poet, dies
Type: Death
02/17/1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
Type: Event
02/17/1803 Louis R E prince de Rohan-Gu‚men‚, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68
Type: Death
02/17/1804 Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
Type: Death
02/17/1804 Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Type: Birth
02/17/1815 Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59
Type: Death
02/17/1816 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
Type: Birth

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