1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• 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.
• February 12 - The Argentine/Chilean patriotic army defeates the Spanish in the Battle of Chacabuco
• 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
• John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar
• A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Outbreak of the Pernambucan Revolt

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)

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)
• 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)

Literature

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria

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