* 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.

* 1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.

* 1817 – An army of 5, 423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.

Their combined army freed Chile with a daring assault over the Andes in 1817, defeating the Spaniards at the Battle of Chacabuco on February 12 and marking the beginning of the Patria Nueva.

* 1817 – An Argentine / Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.

Chile was retaken by Spain in 1814, but lost permanently in 1817 when an army under José de San Martín, for the first time in history, crossed the Andes Mountains from Argentina to Chile, and went on to defeat Spanish royalist forces at the Battle of Chacabuco in 1817.

The Reconquista ended with the victory of Liberation Army of the Andes ( Ejército Liberatador de los Andes ) in the Battle of Chacabuco on 12 February 1817.

This group crossed the Andes and defeated the Spaniards in the Battle of Chacabuco, on 12 February 1817.

José de San Martín was aware of the new flag, but did not employ it during the Crossing of the Andes in 1817.

* Chile campaign ( 1817 ): Installed in the city of Mendoza, San Martín reorganized the Granaderos cavalry unit along with the Army of Cuyo and crossed the Andes Mountains to attack the Royalists in Chile at the beginning of 1817 in the Battle of Chacabuco.

Bolívar's attack on New Granada is considered one of the most daring in military history, compared by contemporaries and some historians to Napoleon's crossing of the Alps in 1800 and José San Martín's Crossing of the Andes in 1817.

In 1816 he joined the Army of the Andes, and returned to Chile as a battalion commander through the Planchón Pass ( in southern Chile ), occupying the city of Talca on February 11, 1817.

During the military campaign across the Andes, Bolívar promoted Santander to Brigadier General in 1817.

The Andes provided an effective natural barrier between the Argentine revolutionaries and Chile, so there was no military confrontation between them until the Crossing of the Andes, led by José de San Martín in 1817, a campaign that resulted in the defeat of the Chilean royalists.

In 1817, the Argentine General José de San Martín led an army across the Andes and defeated the Spanish at the battles of Chacabuco and Chalchuapa and captured Santiago.

In just under two years, he had an army of some 6, 000 men with 1, 200 horses and 22 cannons, and, on January 17, 1817, he set out with this force to cross the Andes and liberate Chile.

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.

In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.

In 1817 he started a music publishing business and 1818, partnered with Pietro Cappi to create the music publishing firm of Cappi & Diabelli.

His father had Benjamin baptised in July 1817 following a dispute with their synagogue.

However with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1814 the region was handed back to the French, though a Portuguese presence remained until 1817.

In the later years of his reign he limited military spending, requiring it not exceed forty millions florins per year ; because of inflation this resulted in inadequate funding, with the army's share of the budget shrinking from half in 1817 to only twenty-three percent in 1830.

A landmark in Greenwich Village ’ s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

Along with the Rush – Bagot Treaty of 1817, this marked the beginning of improved relations between the British Empire and its former colonies, and paved the way for better relations between the U. S. and Canada.

Monroe believed that the Indians must progress from the hunting stage to become an agricultural people, noting in 1817, " A hunter or savage state requires a greater extent of territory to sustain it than is compatible with progress and just claims of civilised life.

According to William Seale, he took several slaves with him to Washington to serve at the White House from 1817 to 1825.

The work went through multiple editions, but the poem, as with his others published in 1816 and 1817, had poor sales as a result of hostile critics who went so far to attack Coleridge's integrity.

" The next review came in the January 1817 Monthly Review, with the anonymous reviewer questioning: " Allowing every possible accuracy to the statement of Mr. Coleridge, we would yet ask him whether this extraordinary fragment was not rather the effect of rapid and instant composition after he was awake, than of memory immediately recording that which he dreamt when asleep?

Despite such voyages ceasing with his death in 1817, his private initiative served to arouse public interest.

Diarist Anne Lister, captivated by Butler and Ponsonby, recorded her affairs with women between 1817 and 1840.

Radama concluded a treaty in 1817 with the British governor of Mauritius to abolish the lucrative slave trade in return for British military and financial assistance.

In 1817 Van Buren's connection with so-called " machine politics " started.

In 1817 the British Wesleyans arrived in the Canadas from the Maritimes but by 1820 had agreed, with the Episcopal Methodists, to confine their work to Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) while the later would confine themselves to Upper Canada ( present-day Ontario ).

Portugal further bases its case on Article 105 of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, which Spain signed in 1817, that states that the winning countries are to " endeavour with the mightiest conciliatory effort to return Olivenza / Olivença to Portuguese authority ".

The illness is named after the famous 19th-century French author Stendhal ( pseudonym of Henri-Marie Beyle ), who described his experience with the phenomenon during his 1817 visit to Florence in his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.

On leaving the East India Company in 1817, Jardine became an independent trader and entered into partnership with Thomas Weeding and Framjee Cowasjee.

In 1817 he was made conductor of the college orchestra, composing a number of symphonies, and concertos for various instruments-including six for flute about 1818-1819, and whose autograph scores are in the Naples conservatory, where they were presumably first performed with him as soloist.

The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817 ( 1818 given on the title-page ), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion.

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.