About the day » Monday March 22, 1717Calender converter

• Guy CADORET, Grand-Champ,56390,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE († 1795)
• Albertje Hesselink, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1800)
• Egidius Herel van, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina ver Gauwen, Temse († 1795)
• Antonius Peters, Maasbree
• Antonius Peeters, Bree
• Barbara, Vijnen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Gaspar Heijnemans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Helena van de Bergh, Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Adrien LEDUC, Saint-Aubert,59188,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1773)

• William DENISON (52), Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Margaret Jacobs (41)
• Samuel Walton (77), Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Richard Thomas Heer van Pange (76)
• Livinus Gasparis van Lieshout (47), Lieshout
• Hemme Harmens, Lutjegast, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Georg JUNG (70), Schwammhof, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Gerrit Jansz KEE (41), Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Margaret Stone Brown (63), Marlborough, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
• Mary Harris (76), Providence, Rhode Island

• 1663 » August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar († 1727)
• 1684 » William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War († 1764)
• 1712 » Edward Moore, English poet and playwright († 1757)
• 1720 » Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace († 1799)
• 1723 » Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician († 1783)
• 1728 » Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist († 1779)
• 1785 » Adam Sedgwick, English scientist († 1873)
• 1797 » William I, German Emperor († 1888)
• 1808 » Caroline Norton, English feminist, social reformer, and author († 1877)
• 1808 » David Swinson Maynard, American physician and lawyer († 1873)

• 1602 » Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator (b. 1557)
• 1685 » Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
• 1687 » Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (b. 1632)
• 1758 » Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1703)
• 1772 » John Canton, English physicist and academic (b. 1718)
• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)

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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.
• 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.
• September 29 » An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.

The temperature on March 22, 1717 was about 9.0 °C.