About the day » Wednesday January 6, 1717Calender converter

• Cornelis Foere, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Floortje Aries van Schenaert
• Barbara VAES, Stevoort,3512,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1810)
• Gijsbert Voorn, Amsterdam
• Annetje Valan, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Doveren, Kerkrade (L
• Gabina Harms, Gebke Fromme, Ahlen, Emsland, Duitsland († 1799)
• Geerlach PRINSZE, Dordrecht
• Barend Pitersz van Zessen, Lexmond
• Gabina Harms Fromme, Ahlen († 1799)

• ELIZABETH THOMPSON-PLUMLEY (57), Abington, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
• Sarah Colver (35), Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut
• Pieter Willemsz II Hoogwerf (26), Poortugaal
• Nathaniel Brooks (71)
• Pieter Willems Hoogwerf (26), Poortugaal
• Kunne Breukink, Borculo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Stephen Root (65), Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Anna Mertens, Wilrijk
• Arien Commer (70)
• Witte-2 van Haemstede (2), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NL

• 1655 » Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg († 1720)
• 1673 » James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire († 1744)
• 1695 » Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe player and composer († 1750)
• 1702 » José de Nebra, Spanish composer († 1768)
• 1714 » Percivall Pott, English surgeon († 1788)
• 1745 » Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon († 1799)
• 1766 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay († 1840)
• 1785 » Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist († 1860)
• 1793 » James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War († 1862)
• 1795 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic († 1871)

• 1616 » Philip Henslowe, English impresario (b. 1550)
• 1646 » Elias Holl, German architect, designed the Augsburg Town Hall (b. 1573)
• 1689 » Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
• 1693 » Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)
• 1711 » Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 » Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 » Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653)
• 1731 » Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 » John Dennis, English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
• 1813 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 4 » The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
• March 2 » The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
• March 31 » A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
• June 24 » The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
• August 17 » Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
• August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

The temperature on January 6, 1717 was about 5.0 °C.