This day in History - March 17

429 Historic Events for March 17
1675 Birth Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
1680 Death Fran‡ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies
1685 Birth Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1704 Death Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1722 Event Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1746 Birth Jan David Holland, composer
1753 Event 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 Event Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 Event St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown and Thistle Tavern
1757 Event Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 Event 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1764 Death George Parker, English astronomer, dies
1766 Event Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 Event British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1777 Birth Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1780 Birth Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
1781 Birth Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1787 Birth George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 Birth Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1796 Death Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
1800 Event English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1801 Death Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
1803 Death Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 42
1804 Event Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres
1804 Birth James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance