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What Happened in March 1717

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Historical Events

  • Mar 2 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
  • Mar 31 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy

Events in 1717

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 26 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, Spanish theorist and composer, born in Las Herencias, Toledo, Spain (d. 1779)
  • Mar 31 Florian Wrastill, Austrian composer of sacred music, choir master, and Benedictine monk, born near Königgrätz, Bohemia [now Hradec Králové, Czech Republic] (d. 1758)
Born in 1717

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 3 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
  • Mar 8 Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
  • Mar 19 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist

Historical Figures

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