October 17 in History

Imprisoned in the Tower & ransomed for 10,000 pounds

Remains before Calais while northern England defeats David II at Neville's Cross

Appointed Regent after the Capture of David II by the English

Fails to persuade Pope Clement VII to grant Henry a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Charged with treason & dismissed, he dies before his trial

Charged with treason & dismissed, he dies before his trial

The House of Lords decides to petition Elizabeth I for a marriage & successor. Parliament discusses linking the subsidy Bill to a declaration about the succession

Declares in Parliament that Elizabeth I should settle the succession

Jones is executed as one of the regicides after the Restoration.

Scrope is executed for signing the death warrant of Charles I.

Lybecker's army is evacuated by sea after the failed Ingria operation, losing many horses and supplies.

Lybecker's campaign ends with evacuation near the Gulf of Finland after failing to threaten Saint Petersburg.

Suspended due to fears of a Jacobite uprising

Ascanio in Alba premieres in Milan.

Surrenders his entire force to the Americans

Joins his regiment at Douai

Chosen as one of Vermont's first US senators

Chosen as one of Vermont's first US senators

Cuts finances to the Prussian military, blames them for defeat to France in Germany

Under the Treaty of Campo Formio Venice is awarded to Austria

Replaces the Treaty of Leoben, Venice is awarded to Austria

Austria receives Venice, Dalmatia & Istria

Austria recognizes the Cisalpine Republic & cedes the left bank of the Rhine to France

France gains Belgian provinces

Napoleon concluded the Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition between France and Austria.

Begins to bombard Sevastopol.

Oversees French armoured floating batteries whose heavy fire demonstrates the value of protected steam warships.

Commands the Russian garrison at Kinburn during the Allied naval and amphibious attack.

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL). Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control

Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy

Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy

Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy

Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control

Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy.

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL).

The informal alliance between the new, tightly disciplined INL and the Catholic Church is one of the main factors for the revitalisation of the national Home Rule.

Helps establish the Irish National League.

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL)

The new organization combines Home Rule politics with moderate agrarianism.

The first night of The Seagull at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Petersburg was a fiasco, booed by the audience, and stung Chekhov into renouncing the theatre

Military dictatorship is rejected as constitutional concessions are accepted.

Issues the October Manifesto promising civil liberties and a Duma.

Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, promising civil rights and a Duma.

Nicholas II signs the October Manifesto under Witte's influence.

Persuades Nicholas II to accept concessions during the revolutionary crisis.

The manifesto promises basic rights and an elected legislature.

Witte argues that concessions are needed to end the general strike.

Witte's advice shapes Nicholas II's constitutional concessions.

Helps secure the manifesto during the revolutionary strike wave.

Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, promising civil rights and a Duma.

Nicholas II signs the October Manifesto under Witte's influence.

Persuades Nicholas II to accept concessions during the revolutionary crisis.

The manifesto promises freedom of conscience speech meeting and association.

Witte persuades Nicholas II to avoid a military dictatorship.

Witte's programme offers constitutional concessions to calm the empire.

Signs the "October Manifesto", establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature

After issuing an ultimatum to the Porte on October 13, Greece declares war on Turkey on October 17

After issuing an ultimatum to the Porte on October 13, Greece declares war on Turkey on October 17

Following an ultimatum to the Ottomans, the remaining members of the Balkan alliance enter the conflict

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on Turkey

Faces declarations of war from Serbia and its Balkan allies.

Leads the Serbian government as it declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

Ostend is liberated by the Allies during the Battle of Flanders

Ostend is liberated by the Allies during the Battle of Flanders

Ataturk 1st goes into a coma

After Huntsman's prisoners are transferred to Altmark, Langsdorff has the captured merchant ship scuttled.

Begins contributing to Commons debates, including discussion of British policy toward Greece.

Serves briefly as acting president before Gabriel Gonzalez Videla is inaugurated.

Signs the Treaty establishing Burmese independence

Signs the treaty establishing Burmese independence from Britain

Malik Ghulam Muhammad becomes Governor-General after Nazimuddin changes office.

Nazimuddin leaves the Governor-General's office to become Prime Minister.

Nazimuddin begins his premiership after leaving the Governor-General's office.

Khwaja Nazimuddin succeeds Liaquat Ali Khan as Prime Minister.

Calder Hall opens as a British nuclear power station.

Opens Calder Hall, promoted as the world's first full-scale nuclear power station

Opens Calder Hall nuclear power station

Opens Calder Hall nuclear power station

With assistance from his Intourist guide, Lee mailed a letter to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citizenship.

By 1980 "distribution according to need" should be in place

Proposes a 20 year plan to usher in a communist society

Opens the Twenty-Second Party Congress and renews public criticism of Stalin-era repression.

Presents a new party programme promising to build the material foundations of communism within twenty years.

McCone recommended warning Moscow and Havana, demanding prompt dismantlement, and reserving a large military strike if the offensive missile deployment remained in place.

Bundy coordinated meetings and intelligence distribution as advisers compared military and political responses to the missile deployment.

Gilpatric helped assess air-strike and quarantine options while the Defense Department prepared forces for possible action.

Kennedy continued reviewing air-strike, invasion, quarantine, and diplomatic alternatives with his advisers.

McCone briefed senior officials on expanding photographic evidence and the estimated readiness of Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba.

McNamara asked military planners to refine blockade, air-strike, and invasion options while the President considered how to respond.

Rusk examined diplomatic consequences of air strikes, invasion, and quarantine while the missile discovery remained secret.

Stevenson urged consideration of a diplomatic settlement alongside military pressure.

At Kennedy's request, McCone briefed former President Eisenhower on the Soviet buildup and showed him U-2 photographs of developing medium-range missile sites.

Korner interviews the Jimi Hendrix Experience for the BBC radio showTop Gear. Some of these tracks, including audio of Korner himself, appear on the Hendrix double-CD BBC Sessions, including Korner playing slide guitar on "(Im Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"

Ovando nationalises Gulf Oil's Bolivian holdings

The PFLP-GC plant a time bomb on a Swissair jet that blows up on a flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv, all 47 aboard are killed

Secures legislation giving domestic effect to European Community obligations.

Supports the legislation enabling Britain to join the European Communities.

Supports restrictions on oil supplies during the October Arab-Israeli war.

Implements Saudi petroleum policy during the 1973 oil embargo.

Arab oil embargo

The Arab oil embargo intensifies inflation, energy shortages and economic disruption.

Misses England's 1-1 draw with Poland at Wembley that ends qualification hopes for the 1974 World Cup.

England draw 1-1 with Poland at Wembley and fail to qualify for the 1974 World Cup.

Release Squeeze Box as a single.

The passengers of the Boeing 737 are freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the terrorists. Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

The passengers of the Boeing 737 are freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the terrorists

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

The government issues a decree regulating marriage payments and setting minimum marriage ages.

Releases The River, a double album mixing party songs, working-class stories and darker adult themes.

A collection of out-takes and unheard tracks by Syd is released under the title, "Opel"

Leaders of Israel and Jordan initial a draft peace Treaty

The Thorbjørn Jagland Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.

Begins the First Kjell Magne Bondevik Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.

Appointed Prime Minister of Norway, 1st term

Hatfield train crash, leads to very restrictive speed limits

Sanchez de Lozada resigns after deadly protests over natural-gas policy.

Mesa Gisbert assumes the presidency after Sanchez de Lozada resigns.

Sanchez de Lozada resigns after mass protests over gas exports and state violence

The Second Kjell Magne Bondevik Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.

Begins the Second Jens Stoltenberg Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.

Becomes the first English player to reach one hundred Champions League appearances.

Turkeys Parliament votes, 507 to 19, to allow the deployment of troops into northern Iraq to deal with attacks on Turkey by Kurdish rebels in Iraq

Agrees a revised Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union.

Confirms that Ukraine has used United States-supplied ATACMS missiles.

Birth of Anders Celsius

Birth of John Norman "Johnny" Haynes

Lionel Duke of Clarence dies in Italy

Death of John Neville

Death of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

Death of Frederic Chopin, consumption at the age of 38

Death of Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact. RAF member Irmgard Muller is found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survives

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

David II is defeated & captured

Uses armored floating batteries during the attack on Kinburn.

Supports Allied naval operations at Kinburn.

Helps command French naval forces during the attack on the Russian fortress at Kinburn.

Ostend is liberated by the Allies during the Battle of Flanders

Ostend is liberated by the Allies during the Battle of Flanders

The Battle of the Selle (17th - 26th October 1918) took place as the Allies continued the advance after the Second Battle of Cambrai, recapturing French villages one by one as the German forces reatreated to the north-east