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April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates .
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The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. The oldest known living person is Maria Branyas of Spain (born in ...
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day ( 1979 ) Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
April 17: 1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices; 1598 - Birth of Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671) 1761 - Death of Thomas Bayes, English mathematician; 1794 - Birth of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868) 1798 - Birth of Étienne Bobillier, French ...
April 17: Evacuation Day in Syria ( 1946) Modern reconstruction of Kaunas Castle. 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess ...
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made ...