1817

Year 1817 (''' MDCCCXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1817

: Battle Of Chacabuco .]]

January - March

January 19 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José De San Martín , Starts Crossing The Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru .

February 12 - The Argentine / Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish in the Battle Of Chacabuco .

March 3

---The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, 9 months before Mississippi becomes a U.S. state.

--President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun 's Bonus Bill .

March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President Of The United States Of America .

: Erie Canal started.]]

April - June

April - Earthquake in Palermo , Italy

April 3 - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire , England.

April 15 - The first American school for the Deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut .

April 17 - Martin Van Buren passes Erie Canal bill.

April 28 - Rush-Bagot Treaty is signed.

May - The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founded General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City .

June 5 - First Great Lakes steamer, the '' Frontenac '', is launched.

June 25 - Large prison riot in Copenhagen prison - army is sent for to quell it.

: Mississippi statehood.]]

July - September

July 4 - At Rome, New York , construction on the Erie Canal begins.

August 22 - City of Araraquara , Brazil founded.

August 23 - Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helike results in 65 deaths.

October - December

October - President and Mrs. James Monroe move back into the White House , after restoration repairs.

October 31 - Emperor Ninkō accedes to the throne of Japan .

November 20 - The first Seminole War begins in Florida .

November 22 - Fredric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman Emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt .

December 10 - Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. State , separated from the Alabama Territory .

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Undated

Elgin Marbles are displayed in the British Museum .

John Kidd extracts Naphthalene from Coal tar.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes '' Biographia Literaria ''.

A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow .

Outbreak of the Pernambucan Revolt .

BIRTHS

January - June

January 6 - J. J. McCarthy , Irish architect (d. 1882 )

January 8 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone , British-born South African statesman (d. 1893 )

February 19 - King William III Of The Netherlands (d. 1890 )

February 22 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt , German mathematician (d. 1880 )

March 6 - Clémentine Of Orléans , daughter of King Louis-Philippe Of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria (d. 1907 )

March 22 - Braxton Bragg , American Confederate general (d. 1876 )

May 15 - Debendranath Tagore , Indian philosopher (d. 1905 )

June 30 - Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist (d. 1911 )

July - December

July 12 - Henry David Thoreau , American philosopher (d. 1862 )

July 24 - Adolphe, Grand Duke Of Luxembourg (d. 1905 )

August 3 - Archduke Albert , Austrian general (d. 1895 )

August 14 - Alexander H. Bailey , American politician (d. 1874 )

August 24 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1875 )

October 17 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (Bahadaur) Founder of the Two Nation Theory for a future Pakistan (d. 1898 )

November 3 - Leonard Jerome , American entrepreneur and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill (d. 1891 )

November 12 - Bahá'u'lláh , Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892 )

November 17 - Benjamin Champney , American painter (d. 1907 )

November 30 - Theodor Mommsen , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903 )

: ''See also .''

DEATHS

January - June

January 12 - Juan Andres , Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740 )

January 16 - Alexander J. Dallas , American statesman and financier (b. 1759 )

April 4 - André Masséna , French marshal (b. 1758 )

April 12 - Charles Messier , French astronomer (b. 1730 )

June 24 - Thomas McKean , American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734 )

July - December

July 14 - Anne Louise Germaine De Staël , French writer (b. 1766 )

July 18 - Jane Austen , English novelist (b. 1775 )

July 19 - John Palmer , Bath architect (b. c. 1738)

October 16 - Manuel Piar , Venezuelan military leader (b. 1774 )

November 14 - Policarpa Salavarrieta , Colombian spy and revolutionary who worked for the Independence of Colombia (b. 1795

November 30 - Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel De Rouville , Canadian politician (b. 1748 )

: ''See also .''

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