North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Ancestry.com, Book Title: Proceedings of the sesqui-centennial gathering of the descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson : at Harmony Grove, Chester Co., Pa., eighth month, twenty-fifth, 1875 : together with the family genealogy / Ancestry.com
April 9 » Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
May 6 » Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
August 24 » William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
September 14 » Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
October 27 » Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Day of death October 17, 1729
The temperature on October 17, 1729 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken betrokken regen. Special wheather fenomena: winderig. Source: KNMI
November 9 » Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
November 29 » Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
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