1817#Deaths

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Events

= January–March =

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 English on Western subjects, including other European languages.
February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: Argentine and Chilean soldiers of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata defeat the Spanish royalist troops in what is now Chile, marking the turning point in the war against European rule of South America.{{Cite book|title= Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence|first= Robert |last = Harvey |year = 2000 |publisher = The Overlook Press| location = New York |pages=346–349|isbn=1-58567-284-X }}

March 3
On his last day in office, U.S. President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill as unconstitutional after it has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress.Stephen Minicucci, [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=275165&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0898588X04000094 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

The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating the Alabama Territory, effective in August.{{cite web |title= Resolution for the admission of the State of Mississippi into the Union |work= A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875. Statutes at Large, 15th Congress |publisher= Library of Congress |page= 472 of 798 |date=n.d. |orig-year= after 1813 |agency= 15th U.S. Congress |url= http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNum=513 |access-date= 1 May 2017 }}
March 21 – The flag of the Pernambucan Revolt is publicly blessed by the dean of Recife Cathedral, Brazil.[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/br-pe.html Pernambucan Revolution, 1817], From crwflags.com. Retrieved June 30, 2006.

= April–June =

April 3 – "Princess Caraboo" appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire in England, and convinces the local residents that she had come to their town from a far-off island kingdom of "Javasu" in the Indian Ocean.{{Cite ODNB|id=41062|title=Baker [née Willcocks], Mary [alias Princess Caraboo]}} A Portuguese sailor named Manuel Enes soon arrives and says that he speaks her mysterious language, and translates her story of an escape from pirates. After publicity, Princess Caraboo is discovered to be a servant girl from the village of Witheridge in Devon.
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 between the United States and the British Empire, limiting the number of warships on the Great Lakes between the U.S. and Canada in the aftermath of settling the War of 1812.Christopher Mark Radojewski, "The Rush–Bagot Agreement: Canada–US Relations in Transition." American Review of Canadian Studies 47.3 (2017): 280–299.
May 27 – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founds the General Theological Seminary, while meeting in New York City.

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

June 12
German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.{{cite web | url=https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/draisienne-1817-2017-200-years-cycling-innovation-design | title=200 years since the father of the bicycle Baron Karl von Drais invented the 'running machine' {{pipe}} Cycling UK | last=Hanlon | first=Sheila | access-date=3 February 2020 | archive-date=5 July 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705110900/https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/draisienne-1817-2017-200-years-cycling-innovation-design | url-status=live }}
Tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the Skibbereen Abstinence Society in Ireland, considered the first organisation devoted to teetotalism in Europe.Winskill P. T., The Temperance Movement: And Its Workers (Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1891) p80
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.Cuba (International Bureau of the American Republics, 1905) p82
June 25 – A large riot breaks out in Copenhagen Prison, and the army is sent to quell it.

= July–September =

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July 4
At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins in the U.S. to link the Hudson River to Lake Erie, with the long-range goal of making the first navigable waterway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes, and reducing the amount of time and costs for transporting goods westward past the Appalachian mountains.{{cite book |last1=Bernstein |first1=Peter L. |date=2005 |title=Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation |url=https://archive.org/details/weddingofwaters00pete |url-access=registration |edition=1st|publisher=Norton |location=New York [u.a.] |isbn=978-0-393-05233-6}}
1817 Santiago del Estero earthquake. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Argentina's Santiago del Estero Province.Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120316084749/http://www.inpres.gov.ar/seismology/seismology/Historic/hist.panel.htm Listado de Terremotos Históricos]
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.
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.{{Cite web |title = U-M's Foundings in Detroit and Ann Arbor: Key Dates |url = http://bicentennial.umich.edu/resources/u-ms-foundings-in-detroit-and-ann-arbor-key-dates/ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20131101064603/http://bicentennial.umich.edu/resources/u-ms-foundings-in-detroit-and-ann-arbor-key-dates/ |archive-date = November 1, 2013 |access-date = January 28, 2016 |publisher = University of Michigan }}
September 11 – The Great Rebellion of 1817-18 begins in Sri Lanka.{{cite web|url=http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/03/11/sri-lanka-revoke-british-governor%E2%80%99s-infamous-gazette-notification|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102192549/http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/03/11/sri-lanka-revoke-british-governor%E2%80%99s-infamous-gazette-notification|title=Sri Lanka is to revoke British Governor's infamous Gazette Notification|archive-date=2 January 2016|access-date=9 December 2016}}

= October–December =

October 9 – The University of Ghent opens in Belgium.{{Official website|http://www.ugent.be/en}}
October 17 – The frigate {{HMS|Trincomalee}} is launched in Bombay for the British Royal Navy. She will still be afloat two centuries later.{{Cite web |title=Trincomalee Construction |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/construction |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527084839/http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/construction |archive-date=2017-05-27 |access-date=25 July 2015 |publisher=The National Museum}}
October 30 – The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
October 31 – Emperor Ninkō accedes to the throne of Japan.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959). [https://books.google.com/books?id=SLAeAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Imperial+House+of+Japan The Imperial House of Japan.] Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/194887 OCLC 194887]
November 3 – The Bank of Montreal opens in Montreal.{{cite web |title=The development of Canada |url=https://ourheritagebmo.com/exhibit/the-development-of-canada/ |website=BMO – Our Heritage |publisher=Bank of Montreal |access-date=20 May 2025 |ref=4}}
November 5 – Third Anglo-Maratha War breaks out with the Battle of Khadki.{{cite book|last=Naravane|first=M. S. |title=Battles of the Honourable East India Company: Making of the Raj|page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxsa3jtHoCEC&pg=PA79|year=2006|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-313-0034-3}}
November 6 – Princess Charlotte of Wales, the daughter and only child of the Prince Regent George and granddaughter of King George III, dies hours after giving birth to a stillborn son.{{cite book|last = Chambers|first = James|year = 2007|title = Charlotte and Leopold|publisher = Old Street Publishing|location = London|isbn = 978-1-905847-23-5|pages=193–194|url-access = registration|url=https://archive.org/details/charlotteleopold00jame}} Her death, tremendously mourned by the British, throws the succession to the British throne into doubt.
November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida.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}}.
November 22 – Frédéric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state, formerly the Mississippi Territory."An 1820 Claim to Congress: Alabama Territory : 1817", The Intruders, TNGenNet Inc., 2001, quick webpage: [http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/intruders/claim-537 TN-537]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.