Editing August 17 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1668]] &ndash; The magnitude 8.0 [[1668 North Anatolia earthquake|North Anatolia earthquake]] causes 8,000 deaths in northern [[Anatolia]], [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name="USGS">{{Cite web |url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825081330/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php/ |archive-date=25 August 2009|title=Historic Worldwide Earthquakes |publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]|access-date=27 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="Zabci_etal_2011">{{Cite journal |last1=Zabci |first1=C. |last2=Akyüz |first2=H. S. |last3=Karabacak |first3=V. |last4=Sançar |first4=T. |last5=Altunel |first5=E. |last6=Gürsoy |first6=H. |last7=Tatar |first7=O. |year=2011 |title=Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley Segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the Surface Rupture of the Historical 17 August 1668 Anatolian Earthquake |url=http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-11-20-4/yer-20-4-4-0910-48.pdf |journal=Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=20 |pages=411–427 |access-date=27 September 2021 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926193329/https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-11-20-4/yer-20-4-4-0910-48.pdf }}</ref>
*[[1717]] &ndash; [[Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18]]: The month-long [[Siege of Belgrade (1717)|Siege of Belgrade]] ends with [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]]'s [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian]] troops capturing the city from the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1723]] &ndash; [[Ioan Giurgiu Patachi]] becomes [[Bishop of Făgăraș]] and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in [[Făgăraș]], after being formally confirmed earlier by [[Pope Clement XI]].
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict XIV]], previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds [[Clement XII]] as the 247th Pope.
*[[1784]] &ndash; Classical composer [[Luigi Boccherini]] receives a pay rise of 12,000 [[Spanish real|reals]] from his employer, the [[Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón]].
*[[1798]] &ndash; The [[Vietnam]]ese Catholics report a [[Marian apparition]] in [[Quảng Trị]], an event which is called [[Our Lady of La Vang]].
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[Robert Fulton]]'s ''[[North River Steamboat]]'' leaves New York City for [[Albany, New York]], on the [[Hudson River]], inaugurating the first commercial [[steamboat]] service in the world.
*[[1808]] &ndash; The [[Finnish War]]: The [[Battle of Alavus]] is fought.<ref>{{cite book|title=När riket sprängdes: fälttågen i Finland och Västerbotten, 1808-1809 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNPRAAAAMAAJ |first=Eirik |last=Hornborg |language=sv |year=1955|publisher=P. A. Norstedts och Söners Förlag |location=[[Stockholm]]}}</ref>
*[[1827]] &ndash; Dutch King [[William I of the Netherlands|William I]] and [[Pope Leo XII]] sign concord.
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British parliament]] [[Marriage Act 1836|accepts]] registration of births, marriages and deaths.
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Indian Wars]]: The [[Dakota War of 1862]] begins in [[Minnesota]] as [[Dakota people|Dakota]] warriors attack white settlements along the [[Minnesota River]].
*  1862   &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Major General [[J. E. B. Stuart]] is assigned command of all the cavalry of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Army of Northern Virginia]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; American Civil War: In [[Charleston, South Carolina]], [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held [[Fort Sumter]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Battle of Gainesville]]: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near [[Gainesville, Florida]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Grand Duchy of Baden]] announces its withdrawal from the [[German Confederation]] and signs a [[History of Baden-Württemberg|treaty of peace and alliance]] with [[Prussia]].
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'', the last opera in his ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Ring]]''cycle, premieres at the [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 May 2012 |title=Götterdämmerung: Performance History |url=http://opera.stanford.edu/Wagner/Gotterdammerung/history.html |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=OperaGlass}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; The first public performance of the [[Dominican Republic]]'s [[national anthem]], ''[[National Anthem of the Dominican Republic|Himno Nacional]]''.
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Bridget Driscoll]] became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.