1817
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| Gregorian calendar | 1817 MDCCCXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2570 |
| Armenian calendar | 1266 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԶ |
| Chinese calendar | 4453/4513-11-14 (丙子年十一月十四日) — to — 4454/4514-11-24(丁丑年十一月廿四日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1809 – 1810 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5577 – 5578 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1872 – 1873 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1739 – 1740 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4918 – 4919 |
| Iranian calendar | 1195 – 1196 |
| Islamic calendar | 1232 – 1233 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2360 |
1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Contents |
Events
January
- 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
- February 12 - The Argentine/Chilean patriotic army defeates the Spanish in the Battle of Chacabuco.
March
- March 3 - President Madison vetoes Calhoun's Bonus Bill.
- March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.
April
- April - Earthquake in Palermo, Italy
- April 3 - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England.
- April 28 - Rush-Bagot Treaty signed.
May
- May - The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founded General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.
June
- 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.
July
- July 4 - At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
August
- August 22 - City of Araraquara, Brazil founded.
- August 23 - Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helike; results in 65 deaths.
December
- December 10 - Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state.
Unknown dates
- Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum
- Emperor Ninko ascends to the throne of Japan
- John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar
- A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Outbreak of the Pernambucan Revolt
Births
- 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 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 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)
Deaths
- 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 14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer (b. 1766)
- July 18 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
Literature
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria
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