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Years: 1814 1815 1816 - 1817 - 1818 1819 1820
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1817 in art 1817 in literature 1817 in science 1817 in music 1817 in sports List of state leaders in 1817 List of religious leaders in 1817

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1.1 Unknown dates

2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Literature

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
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 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
Battle of Maipü
John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar

Births

February 19 - King William III of the Netherlands
February 22 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, mathematician
March 22 - Braxton Bragg, Confederate general (+ 1876)
May 15 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
June 30 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist († 1911)
July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, US philosopher
July 24 - Grand Duke Adolf of Luxembourg
August 24 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, novelist, poet and dramatist
November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur, grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill (d. 1891)
November 12 - Persian prophet, Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahá'u'lláh), founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817, Tehran, Persia (now Iran)
November 30- Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian

Deaths

January 12 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit
July 18 - Jane Austen (b. 1775), British novelist

Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria

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