* 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 )

* 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.

* September 29 – Louise of Hesse-Kassel, German princess, Queen Consort of Christian IX of Denmark ( b. 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 ).

On November 18, 1817, a project was adopted at the Academy to raise funds for the free instruction of " indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety, who shall manifest a desire to obtain a liberal education with a sole view to the Christian ministry.

He left the sea in 1817 and became an apprentice under Christian Bergh, a prosperous shipbuilder on the East River.

Westervelt learned the " art, trade and mystery " of his profession in a most independent way — as a teenage sailor and as an apprentice to Christian Bergh, for whom he worked at the very latest from the year 1817.

** Christian Marquis de Deux-Ponts ( 1752 – 1817 ), officer of the French army and later general of the Royal Prussian and then of the Bavarian Army

Jonathan Cummings ( 1817 – 1894 ), a disciple of Miller who reset Miller's prediction of Christ's coming as 1854, was also influential on the individuals who founded the Advent Christian Association.

A series of sermons on the relation between the discoveries of astronomy and the Christian revelation was published in January 1817, and within a year nine editions and 20, 000 copies were in circulation.

* Chalmers, T., A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy ; John Smith and Son, 1817 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00527-2 )

* The Prussian Union ( Evangelical Christian Church ), a merger of Prussia's Lutheran and Reformed churches announced in 1817

The first edition, by Stieler and Christian Gottlieb Reichard ( 1758 – 1837 ) was published beginning in 1817 and completed in 1823 ( 50 maps ).

In 1817, Heinz Christian Pander discovered three primordial germ layers while studying chick embryos.

The eponymous term is derived from German Baron Karl Christian Ludwig Drais von Sauerbronn, who invented his Laufmaschine ( German for " running machine ") in 1817, that was called Draisine ( German ) or Draisienne ( French ) by the press.

Freiherr Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss ( January 20, 1785 – March 26, 1822 ) was a German chemist known for establishing the first theory of electrolysis in 1806 and formulating the first law of photochemistry in 1817.

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.

Krohg was the son of lawyer and statesman Georg Anton Krohg ( 1817 – 73 ) and the grandson of Christian Krohg ( 1777 – 1828 ) who was a government minister.

Count Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs ( 8 December 1817 – 12 October 1896 ) was a Danish nobleman and politician.

Louise of Hesse (, ) ( 7 September 1817 – 29 September 1898 ) was a German Princess and ( from 15 November 1863 ) the queen consort to King Christian IX of Denmark.

* Christian Johansson ( 1817 – 1903 ), Coaching ballet master / master teacher for the Russian Imperial Ballet 1880 to 1900, particularly of the male students.

The Hebräische Grammatik, published in 1813 ( 28th edition by Emil Kautzsch ; English translation by Arthur Ernest Cowley, 1910 ; 29th edition by Gotthelf Bergstrasser, 1918 – 29 ), was followed in 1815 by the Geschichte der hebräischen Sprache ( now very rare ), and in 1817 by the Ausführliches Lehrgebäude der hebräischen Sprache.

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 ).

* Emil Kopp ( 1817 – 1875 )

He was raised by Gjesdal's sister, Bertha Cecilie ( born 1817 ) and brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, after his mother was judged unfit to care for him.

Johan Henrik Nebelong ( 1817 — 1871 ) was a Danish architect, and brother of Niels Sigfried Nebelong, worked in Norway from 1840 to 1853.

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

In 1817 he was appointed Danish ambassador at Berlin, his brother Joachim going at the same time to Vienna.

* Thomas Reed ( architect ) ( 1817 – 1878 ), Danish architect

Jørgen Jørgensen ( surname changed to Jorgenson from 1817 ) ( 29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841 ) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution.

* Niels Gade ( 1817 – 1890 ), Danish composer

Christen Andreas Fonnesbech ( 7 July 1817 – 17 May 1880 ) was a Danish politician.

They are those of :- Jules Dumont d ' Urville with René-Primevère Lesson ( the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea ); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 ( and continued to until 1842 ); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U. S. A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán ; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections ; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d ' Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10, 000 natural history specimens ; Peter Claussen ( c. 1804 – 1855 ) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( Diptera from Egypt ) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght ( 1810 – 1893 ), Nicholas Funk ( 1817 – 1896 ) and Jean Jules Linden ( 1817 – 1898 ).