* 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.

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* The Opening of Waterloo Bridge seen from Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817 ( c. 1832 )

The mineral was first discovered in Saxony by August Breithaupt in 1817, and named by him from the Greek amblus, blunt, and gouia, angle, because of the obtuse angle between the cleavages.

In 1817, it signed a first treaty, to which it did not adhere.

A form of this epsilon-delta definition of continuity was first given by Bernard Bolzano in 1817.

Chlorophyll was first isolated by Joseph Bienaimé Caventou and Pierre Joseph Pelletier in 1817.

The disease first spread by trade routes ( land and sea ) to Russia in 1817, then to Western Europe, and from Europe to North America.

The first cholera pandemic occurred in the Bengal region of India starting in 1817 through 1824.

Lowell and his partners built America's second cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, second to the Beverly Cotton Manufactory After his death in 1817, his associates built America's first planned factory town, which they named after him.

Finally, he was sent to be minister to the Court of St. James's ( Britain ) from 1815 until 1817, a post that had first been held by his father.

* 1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.

He operated the family farm from 1788 to 1817, but sold it in the first year of his presidency to the new college.

It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by him in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists ' shop.

* 1766 – Nancy Storace, the first soprano to sing Susanna in Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro ( d. 1817 )

Trade secret law as we know it today made its first appearance in England in 1817 in Newbery v. James, ( 1817 ) 2 Mer.

Poe may have been inspired to focus on the purposeful impersonal torture in part by Juan Antonio Llorente's History of the Spanish Inquisition, first published in 1817.

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.

* April 15, 1817 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.

By 1817, Principality of Serbia proclaims self-rule from Ottoman Empire, thus becoming the first nation-state in Europe.

* Jonathan Edwards ( Washington & Jefferson College ) ( 1817 – 1891 ), first president of Washington & Jefferson College

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.

In 1817 the lawyers were generally debating the legal inviolability of private contracts and charters.

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

In Stockholm, Arfwedson knew the chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius and received access to his private laboratory, where he discovered the element lithium in 1817, during analysis of the mineral petalite.

Hall's writings at Leicester embraced various tracts printed for private circulation ; a number of dontributions to the Eclectic Review, among which may be mentioned his articles on Foster's Essays and on Zeal without Innovation ; several sermons, including those On the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes ( 1810 ), On the Death of the Princess Charlotte ( 1817 ), and On the Death of Dr Ryland ( 1825 ); and his pamphlet on Terms of Communion, in which he advocated intercommunion with all those who acknowledged the " essentials " of Christianity.

In the United States, private bills were common between 1817 and 1971.

He graduated from Harvard University ( A. B., 1815 and A. M., 1818 ); in 1812 served as a tutor to the children of a family in Havre de Grace, Maryland, taught in a private school at Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1815 – 1817 ; and studied theology and was college tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard in 1817 – 1819.

From 1817, when the first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, was established, private banks issued paper money denominated in pounds.

Within the new walls which were erected in 1817, three gardens were laid: the private Imperial Castle Garden ( Burggarten ), Heroes Square as a lawn with boulevards, and the People ’ s Garden ( Volksgarten ) with the Temple of Theseus ( Theseustempel ), which, along with the Burgtor, was designed by Peter von Nobile.

In addition to his work for the Court, Thouret designed many private buildings, especially in Stuttgart ( e. g., Wohnhaus Erbe, Königstrasse, 1806 ; Wohnhaus Kohl, Friedrichstrasse, 1817 ).