Editing July 17 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1717]] &ndash; King [[George I of Great Britain]] sails down the [[River Thames]] with a barge of 50 musicians, where [[George Frideric Handel]]'s ''[[Water Music (Handel)|Water Music]]'' is premiered.
*[[1762]] &ndash; Former emperor [[Peter III of Russia]] is murdered.
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Bloody Falls massacre]]: [[Chipewyan]] chief [[Matonabbee]], traveling as the guide to [[Samuel Hearne]] on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]].
*[[1791]] &ndash; Members of the [[National Guard (France)|French National Guard]] under the command of [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|General Lafayette]] [[Champ de Mars Massacre|open fire]] on a crowd of radical [[Jacobin (politics)|Jacobins]] at the [[Champ de Mars]], Paris, during the [[French Revolution]], killing scores of people.
*[[1794]] &ndash; The 16 [[Carmelites|Carmelite]] [[Martyrs of Compiègne]] are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's [[Reign of Terror]].
*[[1821]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Spain]] cedes the territory of [[History of Florida#End of Spanish control|Florida]] to the United States.<ref name="Tebeau p156">{{Cite book |ref=mainbook|last=Tebeau|first=Charlton W.| title = A History of Florida, Third Edition|edition=1999|year=1971|publisher=University of Miami Press|isbn=978-0870243387}}</ref>
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Vega]] became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.<ref name=barger_white2000>{{cite book | display-authors=1 | last1=Barger | first1=M. Susan | last2=White | first2=William B. | date=2000 |orig-date=1991 | title=The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science | publisher=JHU Press | page=88 | isbn=978-0-8018-6458-2 }}</ref><ref name=pasp2_10_249>{{cite journal | display-authors=1 | last1=Holden | first1=Edward S. | last2=Campbell | first2=W. W. | title=Photographs of Venus, Mercury and Alpha Lyræ in Daylight | journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | date=1890 | volume=2 | issue=10 | pages=249–250 | doi=10.1086/120156 | bibcode=1890PASP....2..249H | s2cid=120286863 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; [[Harvard School of Dental Medicine]] is established in [[Boston]], Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[NEC]] Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.