* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

* 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

The second period was characterized by the Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrary rule during the period known as the Reconquista of 1814 – 1817 (" Reconquest ": the term echoes the Reconquista in which the Christian kingdoms retook Iberia from the Muslims ).

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

* 2 Duchess and Duke of Lucca ( 1817 – 1847 )

* 1817 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician ( d. 1896 )

* 1775 – Jane Austen, English writer ( d. 1817 )

* George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough ( 1739 – 1817 ), elder son of the 3rd Duke

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist ( d. 1817 )

* 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U. S. state.

At first, Allen supported the idea of American free blacks emigrating to Africa ; the American Colonization Society founded in 1817 proposed to aid free blacks in resettling there.

At age 17, LeFlore married Rosa Donly in Nashville, whom he met there and brought back with him to the Choctaw Nation when he returned in 1817.

At Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1817, Boggs married his first wife Julia Ann Bent ( 1801 — 1820 ), a sister of the Bent brothers of Bent's Fort fame, and daughter of Silas Bent, then a judge in the Missouri Supreme Court.

At the Bourbon Restoration he was brought again into favour and became a peer of France in 1817, when he was created duc de Mouchy.

At the beginning of February 1817 the troops of San Martín finished his crossing of the Andes and prepared to put an end to Spanish dominion in Chile.

At the time of this visit to West Point, it was decided that Partridge would be replaced by then-Major Sylvanus Thayer, who became Superintendent of the Academy on 28 July 1817.

At some point he left his cabin to live with his son Caswell ( 1817 – 1891 ), a lawyer and schoolteacher.

At Aberclwyd, a branch built in 1817 served the Cnel Bach limekiln which was situated on the river bank.

At the age of twenty-five in 1817 he went on some traveling.

Antonio Canova, when on his visit to England, was much taken with Fuseli's works, and on returning to Rome in 1817 caused him to be elected a member of the first class in the Academy of St Luke.

It is synonymous with the term historical landscape which received official recognition in the Académie française when a Prix de Rome for the genre was established in 1817.

He arrived in Rome in October 1817, at a comparatively late age for a first visit.

Two fresco series were completed in Rome for the Casa Bartholdy ( 1816 – 17 ) ( moved to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin ) and the Casino Massimo ( 1817 – 29 ), and gained international attention for the work of the ' Nazarener '.

The History of Rome () is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ).

From Venice, Cockerell visited Andrea Palladio's buildings along the Brenta ( river ) and at Vicenza, passing on to Mantua and the Palazzo del Te, Parma, Milan, Genoa and back to Rome from where he set off in March 1817 to return home via Paris.

In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1817 to 1822.

From 1814 he devoted himself to the teaching of singing at Bologna ’ s Liceo Musicale, whose direction he was entrusted in 1817, then also in Rome, and eventually at Naples ’ s Regio Collegio di Musica, where he had, among his pupils, Isabella Colbran and Raffaele Mirate.

Edwin White ( born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817 ; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877 ) was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York.

He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips ( 1758 – 1817 ) and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome, till in 1829 he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the Munich academy.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

* 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

The Treason Act 1351, the Treason Act 1795 and the Treason Act 1817 form part of the law of New South Wales.

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* May, 1817 – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founds the General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.

An incident in August 1817 spawned a rather silly mix-up when a committee of the New England Linnaean Society went so far as to give a deformed terrestrial snake the name Scoliophis atlanticus, believing it was the juvenile form of a sea serpent that had recently been reported in Gloucester Harbor.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

Webster's efforts for New England Federalism, shipping interests, and war opposition resulted in his election to the House of Representatives in 1812, where he served two terms ending March 1817.

On July 1, 1817, Clinton took office as Governor of New York.

* 1817 – Eruption of Vesuvius, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

The victory at the Battle of Chacabuco on 26 May 1817 gave way to a new period known as the Patria Nueva ( New Fatherland ).

Daniel D. Tompkins ( June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825 ) was the fourth Governor of New York ( 1807 – 1817 ), and the sixth Vice President of the United States ( 1817 – 1825 ).

His brother, Caleb Tompkins ( 1759 – 1846 ), was a United States Representative from New York from 1817 to 1821.

On April 30, 1807, he defeated the incumbent Governor Morgan LewisTompkins received 35, 074 votes, Lewis 30, 989 – and remained in office as Governor of New York until 1817.

In New York City, the temperature dropped to during the ensuing bitter winter of 1817.

Led by Gregor MacGregor in 1817, a colorful Scottish-born South American freedom fighter, 55 musketeers seized Fort San Carlos, claiming the island on behalf of " the brethren of Mexico, Buenos Ayres, New Grenada and Venezuela ".

New Albany was incorporated as a town in 1817 as part of Clark County.

William Maclure ( 1763 – 1840 ), president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1817 to 1840, came to New Harmony during the winter of 1825 – 26.

The city was established in 1829 and is named after DeWitt Clinton, who served as governor of New York from 1817 to 1823.

Both the village and township are named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York from 1817 to 1823.