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February 12: Battle of Chacabuco 1817 (MDCCCXVII) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1817th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 817th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 17th year of the 19th century,
and the 8th year of the 1810s decade. As of
the start of 1817, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. ·
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. ·
January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College,
Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects. ·
February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: The Argentine–Chilean patriotic army defeats the
Spanish. ·
March 3 ·
President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill. ·
The
U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi
Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating
the Alabama Territory,
effective in August.[1] ·
March 4 – James Monroe is sworn
in as the fifth President of the United States. ·
March 21 – The flag of the Pernambucan Revolt is publicly blessed by
the dean of Recife Cathedral, Brazil.[2] April–June[edit] ·
April 3 – Princess Caraboo appears
in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England. ·
April 15 – ·
The American
School for the Deaf opens in Hartford,
Connecticut. ·
An
earthquake strikes Palermo in
the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies. "Prof. Ferrara on
the Earthquakes in Sicily in 1823", The Edinburgh Journal of
Science p366 ·
April 29 – The Rush–Bagot Treaty is
signed. ·
May 27 – The General Convention of the Episcopal
Church founds the General
Theological Seminary, while meeting in New York City. [3] ·
June 12 – ·
German
inventor Karl Drais drives
his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine),
the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim. ·
Tradesman
Jeffery Sedwards establishes the Skibbereen Abstinence Society in Ireland, considered the first organisation devoted to teetotalism in Europe.[4] ·
June 22 – King Ferdinand VII of
Spain, by royal decree, makes the production and sale of tobacco a
legal endeavor in Cuba, thus sparking the
birth of the Cuban cigar industry. [5] ·
June 25 – A large riot breaks out
in Copenhagen Prison; the army is sent to
quell it. July–September[edit]
July 4: Construction on the Erie Canal starts. ·
July 4 – At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. ·
August 15 – By act of the U.S. Congress
(March 3), the Alabama Territory is
created by splitting the Mississippi
Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is
drafted, four months before Mississippi became a U.S. state.[1] ·
August 22 – The town of Araraquara, Brazil is founded. ·
August 23 – An earthquake near the site
of the ancient Greek city of Helike results in 65 deaths. ·
September 11 – The Great
Rebellion of 1817-18 begins in Sri Lanka. October–December[edit] ·
October 17 – Frigate HMS Trincomalee is launched
in Bombay for the British Royal Navy; she will still be afloat two
centuries later. ·
October 30 - The independent government
of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar. ·
October 31 – Emperor Ninkō accedes
to the throne of Japan. ·
November 3 - The Bank of Montreal opens in Montreal. ·
November 5 – Third
Anglo-Maratha War breaks out with the Battle of Khadki. ·
November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida. ·
November 22 – Frédéric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt. ·
December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the
20th U.S. state,
formerly the Mississippi
Territory.[1] Date unknown[edit] ·
The first
cholera pandemic originates in Bengal, reaching Calcutta by September. ·
A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Births[edit] January–June[edit] William
III of the Netherlands
·
January 8 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone,
British-born South African statesman (d. 1893) ·
February 17 – Édouard Thilges, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
(d. 1904) ·
February 18 – Lewis Armistead, American Confederate
general (d. 1863) ·
February 19 – King William
III of the Netherlands (d. 1890) ·
February 22 – Carl Wilhelm
Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880) ·
February 24 – Auguste-Alexandre
Ducrot, French general (d. 1882) ·
March 6 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of France, mother of
Tsar Ferdinand I of
Bulgaria (d. 1907) ·
March 22 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general
(d. 1876) ·
April 1 – Nissen Shonin, Japanese Buddhist
priest Honmon Butsuryū-shū, Kyoto city
(d. 1890) ·
April 15 – Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College,
Oxford (d. 1893) ·
April 24 – Jean
Charles Galissard de Marignac,
Swiss chemist (d. 1894) ·
May 15 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905) ·
May 19 – Theodor August Heintzman, Canadian piano manufacturer (d. 1899) ·
June 30 – Joseph Dalton Hooker,
English botanist (d. 1911) July–December[edit]
·
July 6 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss biologist, zoologist (d. 1905) ·
July 12 – Henry David Thoreau,
American philosopher (d. 1862) ·
July 15 – John Fowler,
British civil engineer (d. 1898) ·
July 24 – Adolphe,
Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1905) ·
July 29 – Ivan Aivazovsky,
Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900) ·
August 3 – Archduke
Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian
general (d. 1895) ·
August 4 – Frederick
Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United
States Secretary of State (d. 1885) ·
August 14 – Alexander H. Bailey,
American politician (d. 1874) ·
August 24 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer
(d. 1875) ·
August 25 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus,
French religious (d. 1898) ·
Helga de la Brache, Swedish con artist (d. 1885) ·
Mihail Kogălniceanu,
3rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891) ·
September 14 – Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888) ·
October 10 – Christophorus Buys Ballot, Dutch chemist,
meteorologist (d. 1890) ·
October 17 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (Bahadaur),
Indian founder of the Two Nation Theory for a future Pakistan (d. 1898) ·
November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur,
grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill (d. 1891) ·
November 12 – Bahá'u'lláh,
Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892) ·
November 17 – Benjamin Champney, American painter (d. 1907) ·
November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1903) ·
December 8 – Christian
Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Prime
Minister of Denmark (d. 1896) ·
December 10 – Alexander Wood
(physician), Scottish inventor of the first true hypodermic
syringe (d. 1884) ·
December 23 – Warren Felt Evans,
American writer (d. 1889) Date unknown[edit] ·
Sophia Wilkens, Swedish social reformer,
pioneer in the education of the intellectually disabled (d. 1889) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Martin Heinrich
Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium
(1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743) ·
January 11 – Timothy Dwight IV,
American educator, theologian (b. 1752) ·
January 11 – Margherita Dalmet, Venetian dogaressa
(b. 1739) ·
January 12 – Juan Andrés, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740) ·
January 16 – Alexander
J. Dallas, American statesman, financier (b. 1759) ·
February 8 – Francis Horner, Scottish politician,
economist (b. 1778) ·
March 8 – Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish writer (b. 1754) ·
April 2 – Johann Heinrich Jung,
German writer (b. 1740) ·
April 4 – André Masséna,
French marshal (b. 1758) ·
April 12 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730) ·
April 20 – Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, Spanish
prince (b. 1755) ·
June 2 – Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist, linguist (b. 1758) ·
June 4 – George Farragut, American naval officer
(b. 1755) ·
June 9 – Théroigne de Méricourt, French revolutionary
(b. 1762) ·
June 13 – Esther de Gélieu, Swiss educator (b. 1757) ·
June 18 – Leonard Neale, American Catholic bishop
(b. 1746) ·
June 20 – Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, French diplomat (b. 1752) ·
June 24 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of
the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734) ·
June 30 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750) July–December[edit]
·
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) ·
July 24 – Karađorđe Petrović, Serb leader of
the First Serbian
Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (b. 1768) ·
August 10 – Leopold
III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1740) ·
October 11 – Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mexican national heroine (b. 1765) ·
October 13 – Julius Caesar
Ibbetson, English artist (b. 1759) ·
October 15 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, exiled Polish general,
nationalist (b. 1746) ·
October 16 – Manuel Piar,
Venezuelan military leader (b. 1774) ·
November 6 – Princess
Charlotte of Wales, Heir-presumptive to the British throne
(b. 1796) ·
November 7 – Jean-André Deluc, Swiss geologist (b. 1727) ·
November 11 – Francisco Javier
Mina, Spanish military leader (b. 1789)
(executed) ·
November 14 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy,
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, British admiral (b. 1754) ·
December 12 – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. c. 1751) Date unknown[edit] ·
Usman dan Fodio, founder of Sokoto caliphate
(b. 1754) References[edit] 1.
^ Jump up to:a b c "An
1820 Claim to Congress: Alabama Territory : 1817", The
Intruders, TNGenNet Inc., 2001, quick
webpage: TN-537[permanent dead link]. 2.
^ Pernambucan Revolution, 1817, From crwflags.com.
Retrieved June 30, 2006. 3.
^ James Grant Wilson, The Memorial History of the
City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Volume IV (New
York History Company, 1893) p596 4.
^ Winskill P. T., The
Temperance Movement: And Its Workers (Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1891)
p80 5.
^ Cuba (International Bureau of the American
Republics, 1905) p82 |
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