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1817
was a
common year starting on Wednesday
(see link for calendar).
1817
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
December
Unknown dates
Births
Deaths
Literature
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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
.
top
February
February 12
- The
Argentine
/
Chilean
patriotic army defeates the Spanish in the
Battle of Chacabuco
.
top
March
March 3
-
Madison
vetoes
Calhoun
's
Bonus Bill
.
March 4
-
James Monroe
succeeds
James Madison
as the
President of the United States of America
.
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April
April -
Earthquake
in
Palermo
, Italy
April 3
-
Princess Caraboo
appears in
Almondsbury
in
Gloucestershire
, England.
April 28
-
Rush-Bagot Treaty
signed.
top
May
May - The
General Convention
of the
Episcopal Church
founded
General Theological Seminary
while meeting in
New York City
.
top
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.
top
July
July 4
- At
Rome, New York
, construction on the
Erie Canal
begins.
top
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.
top
December
December 10
-
Mississippi
is admitted as the 20th
U.S. state
.
top
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
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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.
1894
)
November 17
-
Benjamin Champney
, American painter (d.
1907
)
November 30
-
Theodor Mommsen
, German writer,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1903
)
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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
)
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Literature
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
publishes
Biographia Literaria
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