About the day » Friday December 3, 1717Calender converter

• Jan Geerts Vegter, Veendam
• Joanna Ven, Berlaar († 1762)
• Cornelia Ooms, Loenhout
• Jean DANIELOU, Lopérec, 29139, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Anna Bogaers
• Jacobus NAVIS, Aalten
• Anna Catharina HUTTENBERGER, Soppe-le-Haut 68, Haut-Rhin, France († 1770)
• Jan Geerts, Veendam († 1794)
• Catharina van Meel, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Catharina Kempeners, Slenaken, Limburg, Nederland

• N.n. Staes (0), Wezemaal, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
• Wytske Gooitsens
• Theodorus van Well (6), Afferden (L)
• Jan Quak (46), Huisduinen
• Elnathan Allen (63), Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
• Pierre Gouin (1), Ste-Anne-de-La-Pérade, Champlain Co, Québec Prov, Canada
• Johanna Marie Bausch (40), Duren, Allemagne
• Katherine Jean (75), Le Tacq, Stowens Isle, Jersey Channel Islands, United Kingdom
• Petrus Stevens (30), Lille, 2275, België
• Jan Coopmans, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1616 » John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer († 1703)
• 1684 » Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer († 1754)
• 1722 » Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet, composer, and philosopher († 1794)
• 1729 » Antonio Soler, Spanish composer and theorist († 1783)
• 1730 » Mahadaji Shinde, Maratha ruler of Gwalior († 1794)
• 1755 » Gilbert Stuart, American painter († 1828)
• 1793 » Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English painter and academic († 1867)
• 1800 » France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer († 1849)
• 1810 » Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American author and political essayist († 1879)
• 1826 » George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey († 1885)

• 1552 » Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506)
• 1592 » Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
• 1610 » Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general and daimyō (b. 1548)
• 1668 » William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (b. 1591)
• 1706 » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637)
• 1765 » Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
• 1789 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 » John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)

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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).
• July 17 » King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
• August 22 » Spanish troops land on Sardinia.

The temperature on December 3, 1717 was about 5.0 °C.