| 93151 | August 17 | Event | 1668 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale causes 8,000 deaths in Anatolia, Ottoman Empire. |
| 93152 | August 17 | Event | 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. |
| 93153 | August 17 | Event | 1723 – Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI. |
| 93154 | August 17 | Event | 1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope. |
| 93155 | August 17 | Event | 1771 – Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis in Scotland |
| 93156 | August 17 | Event | 1784 – Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. |
| 93157 | August 17 | Event | 1798 – The Vietnamese Roman Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. |
| 93158 | August 17 | Event | 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. |
| 93159 | August 17 | Event | 1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. |
| 93160 | August 17 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. |
| 93161 | August 17 | Event | 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. |
| 93162 | August 17 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. |
| 93163 | August 17 | Event | 1866 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces her withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia. |
| 93164 | August 17 | Event | 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. |
| 93165 | August 17 | Event | 1896 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality. |
| 93166 | August 17 | Event | 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened. |
| 93167 | August 17 | Event | 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France. |
| 93168 | August 17 | Event | 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. |
| 93169 | August 17 | Event | 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States. |
| 93170 | August 17 | Event | 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). |
| 93171 | August 17 | Event | 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
| 93172 | August 17 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Soviet Army left Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog. |
| 93173 | August 17 | Event | 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). |
| 93174 | August 17 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. |
| 93175 | August 17 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. |
| 93176 | August 17 | Event | 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. |
| 93177 | August 17 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. |
| 93178 | August 17 | Event | 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. |
| 93179 | August 17 | Event | 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. |
| 93180 | August 17 | Event | 1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army. |