He continued his naval career in the Admiralty in unspectacular fashion and died in 1817.

In 1817, a committee of scientists and musicians compared a Stradivarius violin to one with a guitar-like design made by the naval engineer François Chanot.

Isaac Newton Brown ( May 27, 1817 – September 1, 1889 ) was a naval officer in both the United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy.

* Campbell, John, John Berkenhout and Henry Redhead Yorke ( 1817 ) Lives of the British admirals: containing also a new and accurate naval history, from the earliest periods.

Promoted to Captain in 1813, he commanded Congress in 1817 ; served in Washington in 1818 ; and, in 1819, was placed in command of the Norfolk Station where, in 1821, he established a naval school on the schoolship Guerriere.

Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB ( 9 February 1747 ( Gregorian Calendar ) – 31 August 1817 in Plymouth, England ) was a British naval officer, serving during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as the Governor of Newfoundland during the War of 1812, and a member of the British House of Commons during his semi-retirement.

In 1817, Bainbridge Township was established and named for a well-known naval hero of the War of 1812, Commodore William Bainbridge.

* Adm. Sir Richard Onslow, 1st Baronet ( 1741 – 1817 ), British naval leader distinguished at the Battle of Camperdown

One of the most prominent pieces of graffiti (" A L Corry RN 1817 " at eye level to the left as one enters the temple ) was left by the British naval officer and later Rear Admiral Armar Lowry Corry.

After the union between Denmark and Norway dissolved in 1814, the Kongelige Norske Søcadet-Institut ( Royal Norwegian Sea Cadet Institute ) was opened in 1817 at the main naval base at Fredriksvern ​.

On 24 September 1817 the Regiment was reduced in size ( a previous order to completely disband having either been ignored or rescinded ) to two small units of about 200 men for the defence of the Cape Colony's eastern frontier.

Category: Military units and formations established in 1817

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.

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 ).

His mother lived in his house from 1817 until her death in 1839.

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

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.

First proposed in 1807, it was under construction from 1817 to 1825 and officially opened on October 26, 1825.

* 1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.

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 six-wheeled locomotive was built for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in 1817 but it was soon withdrawn from service because of damage to the cast iron rails.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java ( 1817 ), the purest sulphur was supplied from a crater from a mountain near the straits of Bali.

The word " holomorphic " was introduced by two of Cauchy's students, Briot ( 1817 – 1882 ) and Bouquet ( 1819 – 1895 ), and derives from the Greek ὅλος ( holos ) meaning " entire ", and μορφή ( morphē ) meaning " form " or " appearance ".

Astor's business rebounded in 1817 after the U. S. Congress passed a protectionist law that barred foreign traders from U. S. territories.

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.

Adams served as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe from 1817 until 1825.

James Madison engraving by David Edwin from between 1809 and 1817

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.

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

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

* 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.

Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, " kaleidoscope " is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός ( kalos ), " beautiful, beauty ", εἶδος ( eidos ), " that which is seen: form, shape " and σκοπέω ( skopeō ), " to look to, to examine ", hence " observer of beautiful forms.

* James Monroe ( 1758-1831 ), fifth President of the United States, in office from 1817 to 1825

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

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 ).

It was not until 1817 that a second specimen of Pterodactylus came to light, again from Solnhofen.

Wayne County, Michigan, originally part of the vast Northwest Territory, was eventually whittled down into its current size by the separation of several tracts: Monroe in 1817, Michilimackinac County ( later called Mackinac ) and Macomb counties in 1818, St. Clair and St. Joseph counties in 1820 and Washtenaw County in 1822.

* HM Schooner Bee was a 79-foot wooden supply schooner of 30. 5 tonnes displacement, stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment from 1817 to 1831.

The northern side of the square is occupied by the Town Hall, built in neoclassical style in 1817 – 1819.

The settlement was created in 1817 on nearby Hardin ’ s Creek — on the site of what was later renamed Old Town, Tennessee.

Genoa was reduced again in 1817 to form the Town of Lansing ( in Tompkins County ).

" Part of Locke was used in 1817 to form the Town of Groton ( now in Tompkins County, New York ).

The Town of Otselic was founded in 1817 from part of the Town of German.

The town was formed in 1817 from part of the Town of Kortright and Meredith.

On April 5, 1817 the town of Boston was formed from a portion of the Town of Eden.

The town was partitioned to form the newer Town of Minerva in 1817.

The Town of Fort Covington was formed in 1817 from the Town of Constable.

The Town of Danube was formed in 1817 from the Town of Minden ( in Montgomery County ).

The Town of Ogden was founded on January 17, 1817, at which time it was still part of Genesee County.

The Town of Royalton was formed in 1817 from part of the Town of Hartland.

The Town of Orwell was created from part of the Town of Richland in 1817.

In 1795, Fredericktown township was split up into three parts: the Town of Carmel, the Town of Franklin which was renamed the Town of Patterson in 1808, and the remnant of the town, which was the Town of Frederick for a while, but was renamed the Town of Kent in 1817.

The town was set aside from the Town of Ovid in 1817 as part of Tompkins County, but was returned to Seneca County in 1819.

The Town of Covington was created in 1817 from the Towns of Perry and Le Roy ( in Genesee County ).