* 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.

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.

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

* 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason ( now Friends Hospital ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

Two of Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great ( 1817 ) and Swedish Patriotism ( 1819 ), were produced at Covent Garden.

The 1817 Rush-Bagot Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom was the first arms control treaty of what can be considered the modern industrial era, leading to the demilitarization of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain region of North America.

The success of the Serbian revolution against Ottoman rule in 1817 marked the birth of the Principality of Serbia, which achieved de facto independence in 1867 and finally gained recognition by the Great Powers in the Berlin Congress of 1878.

1817 also saw the passing of the Poor Employment Act, " to authorise the issue of Exchequer Bills and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain ".

The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain ; selected from our cathedrals and churches for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman Conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth was published in 12 parts between 1811 and 1817, together forming two folio volumes.

From 1817 the dimensions of the coin were reduced to a weight of 1. 4 grams and diameter of 16 millimetres, following the Great Recoinage of 1816.

He suspended Habeas Corpus in both Great Britain ( 1817 ) and Ireland ( 1822 ).

( 1796 ), published anonymously ; A Chronological Account of Commerce and Coinage in Great Britain from the Restoration till 1850 ( 1810 ); Opinions of Eminent Lawyers on various points of English Jurisprudence, chiefly concerning the Colonies, Fisheries, and Commerce of Great Britain ( 1814 ); Comparative Views of the State of Great Britain before and since the War ( 1817 ).

" His son, Edwin, later says of his father, “ Great minds to madness closely are allied .” From February 1817 onward, he played almost three thousand performances.

* Ontario Heritage Trust The Rush-Bagot Agreement, Under the terms of this 1817 arms-limitation agreement, the United States and Great Britain agreed to dismantle most of their armed vessels on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain and to construct no new warships.

* 1817 – By the Rush-Bagot Convention Britain and the United States agree to keep large war vessels out of the Great Lakes.

Thus the first two volumes featured sixteen plates from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain ( 1873 ) with historical introduction and commentary on each plate by Phyllis Barclay-Smith, and sixteen plates from Redouté's Roses ( 1817 – 24 ) with historical introduction and commentary by John Ramsbottom.

The main artery Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825 and provided the key link in a water highway to what would become the Midwestern United States, connecting to the Great Lakes at Buffalo.

File: 1817 Alabama seal WPA. png | Great Seal of Alabama ( 1817-1868 )

Between 1815 and 1817, Turner cruised the Mediterranean in the frigate Java commanded by his old superior on the Great Lakes, Oliver Hazard Perry.

His first publication was the epic of Wladimir den store ( Vladimir the Great ; 1817 ); followed by the romantic poem Blenda.

In the treaty of 1814, the king of Spain promised to consider means for abolishing the trade ; so, referring to this promise the king states in the treaty of September 23, 1817, with Great Britain that " having never lost sight of a matter so interesting to him and being desirous of hastening the moment of its attainment, he has determined to co-operate with His Britannic Majesty in adopting the cause of humanity.

* William Barton ( heraldist ) ( 1754 – 1817 ), designer of the Great Seal of the United States

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