1817
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1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- March 4 – James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America
- April – Earthquake in Palermo, Italy
- April 3 – Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England
- May – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founded General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.
- July 4 – At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- 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
- August 22 – City of Araraquara, Brazil founded.
- August 23 – Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helike. 65 deaths.
- 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
- Battle of Maipü
- John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar
Births
- 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 – Grand Duke Adolf of Luxembourg (d. 1905)
- August 3 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
- August 24 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- 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 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian (d. 1903)
Deaths
- January 12 – Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
- 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
Categories: 1817