Template:On this day/July 17

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

July 17:

• 1821 – U.S. General Andrew Jackson accepts the transfer of Spanish West Florida to the United States in Plaza Ferdinand VII and installs a provisional capital in Pensacola.
• 1833 – Emory Fiske Skinner was born.
• 1852 – Mary Ella Brent was born.
• 1907 – Pensacola Fire Chief John Baker died.
• 1928 – Escambia County Sheriff Bill Davis was born.