What is July 17?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[180]] &ndash; 12 inhabitants of Scillium in [[North Africa]] are executed for being [[Chistianity|Christians]]. * [[1203]] &ndash; The [[Fourth Crusade]] captures [[Constantinople]] by assault. * [[1402]] &ndash; [[Yongle Emperor|Yongle]] becomes [[Emperor of China]]. * [[1429]] &ndash; [[Hundred Years' War]]: [[Charles VIII of France]] is crowned [[King]]. * [[1453]] &ndash; [[Battle of Castillon]]: [[France]] defeats [[England]] in the last [[battle]] of the [[Hundred Years' War]]. * [[1717]] &ndash; [[George Frideric Handel]]'s [[Water Music (Handel)|Water Music]] is premiered, as King [[George I of Great Britain]] sails down the [[River Thames]] with a barge of 50 [[musician]]s. * [[1771]] &ndash; Bloody Falls massacre: [[Chipewyan]] chef [[Matonabbee]], travelling as the guide to [[Samuel Hearne]] on his [[Arctic]] overland expedition, massacres a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]]. * [[1791]] &ndash; Members of [[France]]'s National Guard under control of [[Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette]] open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, [[Paris]], killing 50 people. * [[1821]] &ndash; [[Florida]] goes into [[US]] control. * [[1863]] &ndash; The [[New Zealand]] [[War]]s resume as British forces in [[New Zealand]] led by [[Duncan Cameron]] begin their invasion at [[Waikato]]. * [[1897]] &ndash; The [[Klondike]] [[Gold]] Rush begins in North–western [[Canada]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1917]] &ndash; The [[British Royal Family]] changes its name to [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]. * [[1918]] &ndash; [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], the Czar of Russia, his wife, and their 5 children are executed by the [[Bolsheviks]], under orders from [[Vladimir Lenin]]. * [[1936]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Civil War]] begins. * [[1944]] &ndash; Port Chicago disaster: At Port Chicago near [[San Francisco]] Bay, two ships carrying ammunition for the [[war]] explode, killing 320 people. * [[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Napalm]] incendiary [