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1717| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 1717 | UK [medicine] | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes Inoculation Against Smallpox, reporting the method of immunization known in the East for centuries and introducing the practice of inoculation for smallpox into England; the inoculation of the Princess of Wales makes it fashionable. | | c. 1717 | UK [orchestral music] | The German-born English composer George Frideric Handel writes his Water Music, a set of instrumental pieces. It is first performed, by a band of 50 musicians in a barge alongside King George's barge at a concert on the River Thames in London, England. | | 1717 | France [painting] | The French artist Antoine Watteau paints Embarkation for the Isle of Cythera (Louvre version). This and similar works create a new category in art, the fête galante, a scene of amorous dalliance in an ideal landscape or romantic garden. | | 1717 | Afghanistan [political events] | Mir Abdullah, ruler of the Afghan state of Kandahar, is succeeded by Mir Mahmud. In the same year, Abdalis of Herat leads a revolt against Persia, and sets up another separate Afghan state. Afghanistan had been divided between the empires of Persia and Hindustan since 1523. | | 16 August 1717 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Hungary [Habsburg–Ottoman Wars (1525–1718)] | The Austrian general Prince Eugène of Savoy defeats an Ottoman army of 200,000 men under Halil Pasha, at Peterwardein, Hungary. Halil had been ordered to relieve Belgrade, on the right bank of the River Danube in Serbia, which had been under Austrian siege since May. Belgrade surrenders on 22 August. |
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