1817
1817 was a common year.
1817 Media
July 4: Construction on the Erie Canal starts.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s |
Years: | 1814 1815 1816 – 1817 – 1818 1819 1820 |
Events of 1817
January – March
- January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina to free Chile and then Peru.
- February 12 – The Argentine/Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Chacabuco.
- March 3
- The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, 9 months before Mississippi becomes a U.S. state.
- President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill.
- The Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, 9 months before Mississippi becomes a U.S. state.
- March 4 – James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.
April – June
- April – Earthquake in Palermo, Italy
- April 3 – Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England.
- April 15 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.
- April 17 – Martin Van Buren passes Erie Canal bill.
- April 28 – Rush-Bagot Treaty is signed.
- May – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founded General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.
- 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 – September
- July 4 – At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- August 22 – City of Araraquara, Brazil founded.
- August 23 – Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helike results in 65 deaths.
October – December
- October – President and Mrs. James Monroe move back into the White House, after restoration repairs.
- October 31 – Emperor Ninkō accedes to the throne of Japan.
- November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida.
- November 22 – Fredric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.
- December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state, separated from the Alabama Territory.
Undated
- Elgin Marbles are displayed in the British Museum.
- John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.
- A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Outbreak of the Pernambucan Revolt.
January – June
- 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)
Deaths
July – December
- July 14 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer (b. 1766)
- July 18 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
- July 19 – John Palmer, Bath architect (b. c. 1738)
- October 16 – Manuel Piar, Venezuelan military leader (b. 1774)
- November 14 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy and revolutionary who worked for the Independence of Colombia (b. 1795)
- November 30 – Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville, Canadian politician (b. 1748)
- December 7 – William Bligh, Captain of the Bounty, Governor of New South Wales (b. 1754)