Births on September 4

Job Orton, English minister and author (d. 1783)

Job Orton (4 September 1717 – 1783) was an English dissenting minister.

4 Jan

Triple Alliance (1717)
The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
31 Mar

Benjamin Hoadly
A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
17 Jul

Water Music (Handel)
King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
17 Aug

Siege of Belgrade (1717)
Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.