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17 March AD 2023
1st Indiction
a.d. xvi Kal. Apr. MMDCCLXXVI AUC
Our Lady of Ireland or the Madonna of Ireland
- .432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date).
- 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in the Kingdom of England.
- 1473 – James IV of Scotland was born.
- 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy.
- 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
- 1863 – Maximilian Weismiller, the Old Curmudgeon's Grandfather, was born in Independence, Iowa.
- 1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
- 2000 – Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
- 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
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