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1817

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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February 12: Chilean and Argentine independence fighters defeat Spanish Royal Army at Battle of Chacabuco.
June 12: German inventor Karl Drais introduces his prototype of the bicycle.
1817 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1817
MDCCCXVII
Ab urbe condita2570
Armenian calendar1266
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԶ
Assyrian calendar6567
Balinese saka calendar1738–1739
Bengali calendar1224
Berber calendar2767
British Regnal year57 Geo. 3 – 58 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2361
Burmese calendar1179
Byzantine calendar7325–7326
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4514 or 4307
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4515 or 4308
Coptic calendar1533–1534
Discordian calendar2983
Ethiopian calendar1809–1810
Hebrew calendar5577–5578
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1873–1874
 - Shaka Samvat1738–1739
 - Kali Yuga4917–4918
Holocene calendar11817
Igbo calendar817–818
Iranian calendar1195–1196
Islamic calendar1232–1233
Japanese calendarBunka 14
(文化14年)
Javanese calendar1744–1745
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4150
Minguo calendar95 before ROC
民前95年
Nanakshahi calendar349
Thai solar calendar2359–2360
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1943 or 1562 or 790
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1944 or 1563 or 791

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.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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July 4: Construction on the Erie Canal starts.
  • July 4
  • 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 becomes a U.S. state.[3]
  • 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.
  • August 26 – The University of Michigan is founded in the U.S., initially near the intersection of Bates Street and Congress Street in Detroit. It will move its campus to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1837."U-M's Foundings in Detroit and Ann Arbor: Key Dates". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  • September 11 – The Great Rebellion of 1817-18 begins in Sri Lanka.[14]

October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–June

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William III of the Netherlands
Joseph Dalton Hooker

July–December

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Mihail Kogălniceanu

Date unknown

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  • Sophia Wilkens, Swedish social reformer, pioneer in the education of the intellectually disabled (d. 1889)

Deaths

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January–June

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Thomas McKean

July–December

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Jane Austen
Karađorđe
William Bligh

References

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  2. ^ Stephen Minicucci, Internal Improvements and the Union, 1790–1860, Studies in American Political Development (2004), 18: p.160-185, (2004), Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X04000094
  3. ^ a b "Resolution for the admission of the State of Mississippi into the Union". A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875. Statutes at Large, 15th Congress. Library of Congress. 15th U.S. Congress. n.d. [after 1813]. p. 472 of 798. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  4. ^ Pernambucan Revolution, 1817, From crwflags.com. Retrieved June 30, 2006.
  5. ^ "Baker [née Willcocks], Mary [alias Princess Caraboo]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41062. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Prof. Ferrara on the Earthquakes in Sicily in 1823", The Edinburgh Journal of Science p366
  7. ^ Christopher Mark Radojewski, "The Rush–Bagot Agreement: Canada–US Relations in Transition." American Review of Canadian Studies 47.3 (2017): 280–299.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ Hanlon, Sheila. "200 years since the father of the bicycle Baron Karl von Drais invented the 'running machine' | Cycling UK". Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  10. ^ Winskill P. T., The Temperance Movement: And Its Workers (Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1891) p80
  11. ^ Cuba (International Bureau of the American Republics, 1905) p82
  12. ^ Bernstein, Peter L. (2005). Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation (1st ed.). New York [u.a.]: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-05233-6.
  13. ^ Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica, Listado de Terremotos Históricos
  14. ^ "Sri Lanka is to revoke British Governor's infamous Gazette Notification". Archived from the original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  15. ^ Official website
  16. ^ "Trincomalee Construction". The National Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 25 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  17. ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 194887
  18. ^ Naravane, M. S. (2006). Battles of the Honourable East India Company: Making of the Raj. APH Publishing. p. 81. ISBN 978-81-313-0034-3.
  19. ^ Chambers, James (2007). Charlotte and Leopold. London: Old Street Publishing. pp. 193–194. ISBN 978-1-905847-23-5.
  20. ^ Missall, John and Mary Lou Missall. 2004. The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict. University Press of Florida, pp.33-37 ISBN 0-8130-2715-2.
  21. ^ "An 1820 Claim to Congress: Alabama Territory : 1817", The Intruders, TNGenNet Inc., 2001, quick webpage: TN-537[permanent dead link].
  22. ^ Tageszeitung Neue Freie Presse, Wien, 26. Mai 1896, p. 3.