About the day » Wednesday June 2, 1717Calender converter

• Antoine JOURD'HEUIL, Bussières lès Belmont, 52, Haute Marne, France († 1762)
• Catarina Antonina VETRANO, Bisacquino,90032,Palerme,Sicile,ITALIE († 1747)
• Cornelis Cornelisz VONS, Maassluis
• Anna Catharina Duijsen, Oud-Valkenburg
• Anna Maria Reith, Büchenau, Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland († 1763)
• Amelia Elizabeth "Millie" Frey, Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 1781)
• Anne LECOMTE, SOUGNE-REMOUCHAMPS (Sougné), Liège, Belgique
• Elisabeth-Marguerite Guidais, Montpellier, 34000, Herault, F
• Cornelis Cornelsz Vons, Maassluis
• Cornelis Vons, Maassluis († 1785)

• Betje Barends (78), Enkhuizen
• Leendert Jan Willemse van Alphen (74), Zevenhuizen
• Harkes, Den Helder
• Dietrich Storp, Osterfeld, Sachsen-Anhalt, Duitsland
• Cornelis Jacobsen Quist (57), Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Pieter Abrams Bunnekens (51), Hulst, Melopolder, Zeeland, Nederland
• Baltasar Alonso Morales de Albornoz y de la Guardia (72), San Juan, Capital Department, San Juan
• Isabelle BOULET (69), Audresselles, 62164, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
• Mary Billington (77), Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
• Cornelis Jacobsz Quist (57), Stavenisse Zl

• 1621 » (baptized) Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter († 1649)
• 1621 » Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service († 1693)
• 1638 » Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon († 1709)
• 1644 » William Salmon, English medical writer († 1713)
• 1739 » Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island († 1815)
• 1740 » Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician († 1814)
• 1743 » Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer († 1795)
• 1773 » John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia († 1833)
• 1774 » William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician († 1850)
• 1813 » Daniel Pollen, Irish-New Zealand politician, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1896)

• 1581 » James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1525)
• 1603 » Bernard of Wąbrzeźno, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1575)
• 1693 » John Wildman, English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1621)
• 1701 » Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (b. 1607)
• 1716 » Ogata Kōrin, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1658)
• 1754 » Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (b. 1680)
• 1761 » Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (b. 1685)
• 1785 » Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician and academic (b. 1713)
• 1806 » William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
• 1853 » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777)

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

The temperature on June 2, 1717 was about 11.0 °C.