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.

* 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( d. 1817 )

* Susannah Wedgwood ( 1765 – 1817 ) ( married Robert Darwin, parents of the English naturalist Charles Darwin )

* July 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( d. 1817 )

* Charles – Louis van Keverberg van Kessel ( 1815 – 1817 )

* Charles Henry Langston ( 1817 – 1892 ), born free, one of two men tried and convicted after Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, abolitionist and political activist in Ohio and Kansas.

* Charles Case ( 1817 – 1883 ), born in Austinburg, United States Congressman from Indiana.

* Charles Henry Langston ( 1817 – 1892 ), one of two tried and convicted after Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, abolitionist and political activist in Ohio and Kansas.

Charles was born in Beaugency-sur-Loire in 1746, He married Julie Françoise Bouchaud des Hérettes ( 1784 – 1817 ), a creole woman 37 years younger than himself.

** Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco ( born 1817 )

As a counterblast to this the grand-duke Charles issued in 1817 a pragmatic sanction ( Hausgesetz ) declaring the counts of Höchberg, the issue of a morganatic marriage between the grand-duke Charles Frederick and Luise Geyer von Geyersberg ( created countess Höchberg ), capable of succeeding to the crown.

In 1817, Hume went on a journey with James Meehan, the deputy surveyor-general, and Charles Throsby during which Lake Bathurst and the Goulburn Plains were discovered.

In 1817, a local playwright named Charles Bucke submitted his play The Italians, or ; The Fatal Accusation to Drury Lane for which Kean was to play the lead.

By 1796 Lisa had married Polly Charles Chew ( d. 1817 ), a young widow from New Orleans.

In 1817 during a court case he and opposing attorney Charles Lucas accused each other of lying.

* Charles Abbot ( botanist ) ( 1761 – 1817 ), British botanist and entomologist

Soane designed several public buildings in London, including: National Debt Redemption Office ( 1817 ) demolished 1900 ; Insolvent Debtors Court ( 1823 ) demolished 1861 ; Privy Council and Board of Trade Offices, Whitehall ( 1823 – 24 ) remodelled by Sir Charles Barry the building now houses the Cabinet Office ; in a new departure for Soane he used the Italianate style for The New State Paper Office, ( 1829 – 1830 ) demolished 1868 to make way for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office building.

Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD ( born at Lynn Regis, Norfolk December 4, 1757, died at Deptford, then in Kent, on December 28, 1817 ) was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.

Born 1817, at St-Omer, France, to Lt .- Colonel Charles Stisted ( 1786 – 1842 ) of the 3rd Hussars, by his wife Eliza ( 1791 – 1822 ), daughter of Major-General Andrew Burn ( 1742 – 1814 ) of Gillingham, Kent.

Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury GCB, PC ( 9 January 1780 – 21 July 1845 ) was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835.

The origins of the Rush – Bagot Treaty can be traced to a correspondence of letters between Acting United States Secretary of State Richard Rush and the British Minister to Washington Sir Charles Bagot, which were exchanged and signed on April 27 and 28, 1817.

* Dr. John Charles Bucknill ( 1817 Market Bosworth-1897 )-asylum reformer, psychiatrist

* May 24-William Charles Wells, Scottish American physician ( died 1817 )

* 1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist ( d. 1905 )

* February 2 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general ( b. 1817 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Many early suspension bridges were cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge Dryburgh Bridge, James Dredge's patented Victoria Bridge, Bath ( 1836 ), and the later Albert Bridge ( 1872 ) and Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ).

* Portrait of A W Schlegel by Albert Gregorius ( 1774 – 1853 ), 1817, in the Castle of Coppet ( Switzerland )

Now employed at the gas works in London, London 1819, Second edition 1820 ; German translation by Wilhelm August Lampadius entitled Praktische Abhandlung über die Gaserleuchtung: enthaltend eine summarische Beschreibung des Apparates und der Maschinerie, Berlin 1816, Second edition 1819 ; the 1816 French edition Traité pratique de l ’ éclairage par le gaz inflammable contained a forward and was expanded by Friedrich Albert Winsor, Paris 1816 ; Italian Trattato pratico sopra il gas illuminante: contenente una completa descrizione dell ’ apparecchio ... con alcune osservazioni, Milan 1817

George Albert Smith ( June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875 ) ( commonly known as George A. Smith to distinguish him from his grandson of the same name ) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the church's First Presidency.

He married in 1817 and had ten children, of whom five were still living when he wrote a letter to his son Albert in 1856.

He also studied microscopic anatomy of the labyrinth with Albert von Kölliker ( 1817 – 1905 ) in Würzburg, and ear surgery with Joseph Toynbee ( 1815 – 1866 ) in London, England.

Rapp's son, Johannes, was married in 1807 ; and it was the last marriage on record until 1817.

After Richmond died of a fever on 13 September 1815, Anne married Henry Carmichael-Smyth on 13 March 1817.

On 4 November 1817, he married Caroline Brandt, a singer who created the title role of Silvana.

On 13 July 1817, Nicholas married Charlotte of Prussia ( 1798 – 1860 ), who thereafter went by the name Alexandra Feodorovna.

In 1806, Eugène married Princess Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia of Bavaria ( 1788 – 1851 ), eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, and his royal father-in-law made him Duke of Leuchtenberg and gave him the administration of the Principality of Eichstätt on 14 November 1817.

# Prince Maximilian Josèphe Eugène Auguste Napoléon de Beauharnais ( 1817 – 1852 ), married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia, eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, and received the title of " Prince Romanovsky ", addressed as " His Imperial Highness ", in 1852.

* Albertine, Countess of Montenuovo ( 1817 – 1867 ), married Luigi Sanvitale, Count of Fontanellato

Arndt was twice married, first in 1800, his wife dying in the following year ; a second time in 1817.

Barry was engaged to Sarah Roswell ( 1798 – 1882 ) in 1817, they married on 7 December 1822 and had seven children together.

In 1795, Richard B. Sheridan married Hester Jane Ogle ( 1776 – 1817 ), daughter of the Dean of Winchester.

His parents were Thomas Seddon, born 1817, and Jane Lindsay who married on 8 February 1842 at Christ Church, Eccleston.

Robert Clive married Margaret Maskelyne ( d. 28 December 1817 ) on 18 February 1753, sister of the Rev.

In July 1817 he married Frances Waddington, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Benjamin Waddington of Llanover, Monmouthshire.

In 1842 he married Lady Janet Shuttleworth ( b. 9 November 1817 ), assuming by royal licence his bride ’ s name and arms.

A daughter, Rebecca Sherman, was married to Simeon Baldwin, whose career included service in the United States Congress ( 1803 – 1806 ), as an Associate Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court, 1806 – 1817, and who became Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut in 1826.

Sherman's daughter Martha was married to Jeremiah Day who was the President of Yale University from 1817 to 1846.

By 1817, the mad King George III had only one legitimate grandchild, Princess Charlotte of Wales, and when she died in childbirth, Ernest was the senior son to be both married and not estranged from his wife.

He married on June 16, 1835, at Lewiston, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Mary Jane Hale, who was born on June 18, 1817 in Glastonbury, Connecticut the daughter of Elias White Hale and Jane Mullhallan.

At age 17, LeFlore married Rosa Donly in Nashville, whom he met there and brought back with him to the Choctaw Nation when he returned in 1817.

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