1817
| Years : | 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 |
| Years: | 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 |
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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
- Battle of Maipú, secures chilean independence.
- 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.
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Unknown dates
- Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum
- Emperor Ninko ascends to the throne of Japan
- John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar
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Births
- January 6 - J. J. McCarthy Irish Gothic Revival architect (d. February 6 1882)
- January 8 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone British South African statesman (d. June 23 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)
- 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, Founder of the White Mountain school of painters (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)
- January 30 - Betsy Ross
- April 4 - André Masséna, French marshal (b. 1758)
- 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
