In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

Following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1817, which opened up easier travel to Lake Erie from the East Coast of the United States, the Detroit River became a heavily traversed route for settlers traveling to northern Michigan, and Detroit, as well, experienced a sudden increase in population.

The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, about 20 years before the Michigan Territory officially became a state.

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

Back to full fitness in 1868, he became the second batsman in history, following William Lambert in 1817, to score two centuries in a match.

The son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden by his second, wife Luise Karoline, Baroness Geyer von Geyersberg, who was born into a noble but not reigning family, he only became a Prince in 1817 ( aged 27 ), as part of a new law of succession.

Incorporated in 1817, Baton Rouge became Louisiana's state capital in 1849.

However, it wasn't until the purchase of The Caledonia by James Watt Jr. in 1817 that they became seriously involved in the marine engineering business.

The military of Belize dates back to 1817, when the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer organization, was founded ; this militia became the Belize Volunteer Guard of the British Territorial Army.

Claudius's poem Death and the Maiden was used by composer Franz Schubert in 1817 for one of his most celebrated songs, which in turn became the basis for the 1824 string quartet of the same name.

In 1817, Dallas's father died, ending Dallas's plan for a family law practice, and he stopped working for the Second Bank of the United States and became the deputy attorney general of Philadelphia, a position he held until 1820.

Historically a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, in 1817 Poplar became a civil parish.

The settlement also incorporated as a village in 1817 and became the county seat of Monroe County.

Sullivan County was formed in 1817, and the area that later became Vigo County was part of it until 1818, when the county was created by an act of the Indiana General Assembly which took effect on February 1.

He was elected President, serving two terms from 1809 to 1817, and Dolley became the official First Lady.

In 1817, Alabama became a territory, and on December 13, 1819, the territorial legislature incorporated the town of Tuscaloosa, one day before Congress admitted Alabama to the Union as a state.

Davis relates " an interesting story " of how the town got its name: that a gambler named Mayfield was kidnapped around 1817 at a racetrack near what became Hickman, Kentucky.

Bussum became independent from Naarden in 1817, yet it was not until the arrival of a railway line in 1874 that Bussum began to flourish.

The number grew in 1817 after it became an independent municipality.

After roughly 15 years, the legislature transferred the capital back to Natchez at the end of 1817, when the territory became a state.

" The name became " Guilford " in 1817.

Hector became part of Tompkins County when the county was created in 1817, and then became part of Schuyler County in 1854 in the part contributed by Tompkins County.

In 1817, the community of Ogdensburg set itself apart from the town by incorporating as a village, and became the City of Ogdensburg in 1868.

It was laid out by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Clark on February 1, 1817, as Venus, which became corrupted as " Venice ", a name found on some maps.

: An executive councillor in 1817 and legislative councillor in 1820 in the government of Upper Canada, Bishop Strachan sought special status for the Anglican church.

* 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U. S. state.

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.

In 1817, the deplorable state of the War Department led four men to turn down requests to fill the Secretary of War position before Calhoun finally accepted the task.

As a U. S. Congressman ( 1813 – 1817 ) and as speaker of the N. C. Senate ( 1817 – 1827 ), he was instrumental in many accomplishments that benefited the state, including the creation of an education fund that was the beginning of the N. C. Public School System.

Following the War of 1812, Cicott resumed his trading on the Wabash ; the state of Indiana was established in 1816, and Cicott built a log house in 1817 at the location where he later founded the town of Independence.

Georgia's first state penitentiary was also established within the historic city limits of Milledgeville in 1817, on land now part of the campus of Georgia College and State University.

Originally named Hervey Range by John Oxley in 1817, the area was reserved in 1897 as state forest because of its importance as a timber resource, and was designated a national park in 1995.

The first Arkansas post office was built in Davidsonville in 1817, and the first state state courthouse was established in 1818.

A post office in Murphy ’ s Settlement opened in 1817, followed by the annexation of the land to the United States through the Louisiana Purchase – creating the state of Missouri.

* William A. Newell ( 1817 – 1901 ), Governor of New Jersey who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives.

* William A. Newell ( 1817 – 1901 ), Governor of New Jersey who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives.

" Old Baldy ", its out-of-service lighthouse, is the oldest still standing in the state, built in 1817.

Knoxville served as capital of the Territory South of the River Ohio and as capital of Tennessee ( admitted as a state in 1796 ) until 1817, when the capital was moved to Murfreesboro.

He received a state pension, but his personal life was dogged by tragedy including the deaths of all his five children within his lifetime ( Anne, age 5, d. 1817 ; Anastasia Mary, age 17, d. 1829 ; Olivia as a baby of a few months of age ; John Russell, aged 19, d. 1842 ; and Thomas Lansdowne, aged 27, d. 1849 ) and a stroke in later life, which disabled him from performances-the activity for which he was most renowned.

After his death in 1817, his son, Muhammed Bello, succeeded his as amir al-mu ’ minin and became the ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, which was the biggest state south of the Sahara at that time.

Maistre was a subject of the King of Piedmont-Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate ( 1787 – 1792 ), ambassador to Russia ( 1803 – 1817 ), and minister of state to the court in Turin ( 1817 – 1821 ).

After the defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Savoy's dominion over Piedmont ( under the terms of the Congress of Vienna ), Maistre returned in 1817 to Turin, and served there as magistrate and minister of state until his death.

In 1817, Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state and Holmes won the election to be the first governor of the State of Mississippi.