1817
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| Years: 1814 1815 1816 - 1817 - 1818 1819 1820 | |
| Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s | |
| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century | |
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 Maipú
- 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
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