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

1817 - 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.

1817 - Unknown dates

Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum
Emperor Ninko ascends to the throne of Japan
John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar

1817 - Births

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)

1817 - 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)