* 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.

Of particular importance were collections of " studies " by Johann Baptist Cramer ( published between 1804 and 1810 ), early parts of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum ( 1817 – 26 ), numerous works by Carl Czerny, and Ignaz Moscheles ' Studien Op.

* Carl Georg Flach ( 1817 – 25 )

Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli ( 26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891 ) was a Swiss botanist.

Carl Maria von Weber also wrote incidental music to the play in 1817.

Works by painters such as Johann Baptist Laule ( 1817 – 1895 ) and Carl Heine ( 1842 – 1882 ) were used to decorate the fronts of this and other types of clocks.

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt ( 22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880 ) was a German mathematician.

Other university professors included such giants of the science world as the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1806 – 07 ), the biologist Karl Ernst von Baer ( 1817 – 34 ), the mathematician Carl Gustav Jacobi ( 1829 – 42 ), the mineralogist Franz Ernst Neumann ( 1828 – 76 ) and the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz ( 1849 – 55 ).

In 1817 Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius travelled to Brazil with a group of Austrian naturalists who accompanied Maria Leopoldina of Austria.

* Carl Johan Idman 1817 – 1820

Carl Christoph Vogt ( 5 July 1817 in Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 5 May 1895 in Geneva, Switzerland ) was a German scientist who emigrated to Switzerland.

Spiess, in his Ritter -, Räuber-and Geister-Romane, as they are called — stories of knights, robbers and ghosts of the " dark " ages — the idea of which he borrowed from Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller's Räuber and Der Geisterseher, was the founder of the German Schauerroman ( shocker ), a style of writing continued, though in a finer vein, by Carl Gottlob Cramer ( 1758 – 1817 ) and by Goethe's brother-in-law, Christian August Vulpius.

From its original plan the Hortus was expanded in 1736 by Adriaan van Royen and Carl Linnaeus, and in 1817 by Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck and Sebald Justinus Brugmans.

* Lady Sarah Frederica Caroline Child Villiers ( 1822 – 1853 ), married Nicholas Paul Carl Pál, 9th Prince Esterhazy ( 1817 – 1894 ).

" Baldr's Death " ( 1817 ) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 1817

Starting in 1871, Frege continued his studies in Göttingen, the leading university in mathematics in German-speaking territories, where he attended the lectures of Alfred Clebsch ( 1833 – 1872 ) ( analytical geometry ), Ernst Christian Julius Schering ( 1824 – 1897 ) function theory, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ) ( physical studies, applied physics, Eduard Riecke ( 1845 – 1915 ) ( theory of electricity, and Hermann Lotze ( 1817 – 1881 ) ( philosophy of religion ).

Now employed at the gas works in London, London 1819, Second edition 1820 ; German translation by Wilhelm August Lampadius entitled Praktische Abhandlung über die Gaserleuchtung: enthaltend eine summarische Beschreibung des Apparates und der Maschinerie, Berlin 1816, Second edition 1819 ; the 1816 French edition Traité pratique de l ’ éclairage par le gaz inflammable contained a forward and was expanded by Friedrich Albert Winsor, Paris 1816 ; Italian Trattato pratico sopra il gas illuminante: contenente una completa descrizione dell ’ apparecchio ... con alcune osservazioni, Milan 1817

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher ( October 21, 1817 – June 4, 1894 ) was a German economist from Hanover.

He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding ( 1811 – 1860 ) and Cecilie Marie Mejdell ( 1817 – 86 ).

Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).

On Justus ' death in Gotha, Wilhelm took over the firm and laid the foundation of the geographical branch of the business for which it is chiefly famous, by the first publishing of the Hand-Atlas from 1817 – 1823 after Adolf Stieler ( 1775 – 1836 ).

Niels Wilhelm Gade ( 22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890 ) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher.

The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( in German: Enzyclopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse ) ( 1817 ) is a systematic work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in which an abbreviated version of his earlier Science of Logic was followed by the articulation of the Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Spirit ( also translated as Philosophy of Mind ).

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ( 6 November 1817, Stralsund – 10 July 1908, Zoppot ) was a German botanist and geologist.

Then, in 1817, when the first harvest wagon was brought in, King Wilhelm and his Russian wife Katharina had the glorious idea to sponsor a harvest festival.

When his son, king Wilhelm I became ruler in 1817, Corporal Punishment, such as running the gauntlet, was abolished.