1717

1717 (MDCCXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1717th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 717th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1717, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1714 1715 1716 – 1717 – 1718 1719 1720

1717 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1717 MDCCXVII
Ab urbe condita	2470
Armenian calendar	1166 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6467
Balinese saka calendar	1638–1639
Bengali calendar	1124
Berber calendar	2667
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 1 – 4 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2261
Burmese calendar	1079
Byzantine calendar	7225–7226
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4413 or 4353     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4414 or 4354
Coptic calendar	1433–1434
Discordian calendar	2883
Ethiopian calendar	1709–1710
Hebrew calendar	5477–5478
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1773–1774
- Shaka Samvat	1638–1639
- Kali Yuga	4817–4818
Holocene calendar	11717
Igbo calendar	717–718
Iranian calendar	1095–1096
Islamic calendar	1129–1130
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 2 (享保２年)
Javanese calendar	1640–1641
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4050
Minguo calendar	195 before ROC 民前195年
Nanakshahi calendar	249
Thai solar calendar	2259–2260
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1843 or 1462 or 690     — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 1844 or 1463 or 691

Events

• January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign the Triple Alliance.
• February 26-March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region.
• March 2 — Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain shown in Drury Lane The Loves of Mars and Venus.
• March 31 – Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying that God favors churches with no government.
• June 24 — The Premier Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), a branch of Freemasonry, is started in London.^[1]
• September: The first known Druid revival ceremony is held by John Toland at Primrose Hill, in London, at the Autumnal Equinox, to found the Mother Grove, what is later to become the Ancient Order of Druids (AOD).
• December 24/25 A disastrous storm flood hits the North Sea coast between the Netherlands and Denmark. Thousands die or lose their houses.
• Voltaire is sentenced to Bastille for a year because of his satirical writings.
• Spain unites its South American colonies as New Grenada.
• Montevideo, Uruguay, founded by Portuguese.
• A rift between George I of Great Britain and his son the Prince of Wales leads to the latter being thrown out of the royal household.

Births

• December 25 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (d. 1799)