Known popularly to naturalists then and even now as Prince Max, this German aristocrat, having successfully led a scientific expedition to Brazil in 1815 – 1817, decided to embark on another such venture, this time to North America.

Tung Chung Fort, Lantau, Hong KongTung Chung Fort was built in 1817, when the Qing Government was alarmed by the rampant piracy of Cheung Po Tsai ( though Cheung himself had been captured seven years earlier ) and decided to intervene and thwart the opium trade and defend the coast from pirates.

On December 8, 1817, due to some " differences of feeling ," a meeting of the board of trustees was held and it was decided that the academy operations should be suspended.

In 1817 it had been decided that the section between Chichester and Chichester Harbour, unlike the rest of the canal, would be built large enough to carry boats of 100 tons.

At the time of this visit to West Point, it was decided that Partridge would be replaced by then-Major Sylvanus Thayer, who became Superintendent of the Academy on 28 July 1817.

In September 1817, Plessis once again decided a new challenge was in order.

Their combined army freed Chile with a daring assault over the Andes in 1817, defeating the Spaniards at the Battle of Chacabuco on February 12 and marking the beginning of the Patria Nueva.

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 ).

Vicat went on to devise a method of combining chalk and clay into an intimate mixture, and, burning this, produced an " artificial cement " in 1817.

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

* 1817 – An Argentine / Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.

* 1817 – In Germany, Gustav von Below, an aristocratic officer of the Prussian Guard, and his brothers, founded a charismatic movement based on their estates in Pomerania, which may have included speaking in tongues.

Conditions of stage production in 1817 are illustrated by Rossini's acceptance of the subject of Cinderella for a libretto only on the condition that the supernatural element should be omitted.

A landmark in Greenwich Village ’ s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

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

* 1817 – At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

Monroe stayed on at State until March 4, 1817, when he began his term as the new President of the United States.

* The 1817 book on the history of the island, by Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.

In his Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ), he explained, " I sought for a subject, that should give equal room and freedom for description, incident, and impassioned reflections on men, nature, and society, yet supply in itself a natural connection to the parts and unity to the whole.

David Ricardo stated it as, " The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the relative quantity of labour which is necessary for its production, and not as the greater or less compensation which is paid for that labour " ( Ricardo 1817 ).

Portugal further bases its case on Article 105 of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, which Spain signed in 1817, that states that the winning countries are to " endeavour with the mightiest conciliatory effort to return Olivenza / Olivença to Portuguese authority ".

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

Adam Smith used the phrase in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, and David Ricardo titled one chapter of his 1817 work Principles of Political Economy and Taxation " On the Influence of Demand and Supply on Price ".

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.

Thomas Marshall's paternal grandfather, Riley Marshall, immigrated to Indiana in 1817 and settled on a farm in what is now Whitley County.

The Portuguese forces, thanks to their numerical and material superiority, occupied Montevideo on January 20, 1817, and finally after struggling for three years in the countryside, defeated Artigas in the Battle of Tacuarembó.

Construction on the French house was initially started before 1789, interrupted by the French Revolution for twenty years and then finally built 1812 – 1817 ( based on Salat's pre-1789 design ).

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.

Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

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.

These inventions would be the basis for his new company, John Cockerill & Cie established in Seraing in 1817.

From Davison's 1817 edition ( promoted by Robert Southey ) on, Caxton's 1485 edition ( or a mixture of Caxton and Stansby ) was used as the basis for future editions, down to the time of the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript.

* 1817 Appointed architect to complete design work on the Old College, University of Edinburgh, on the basis of his proposals to complete the plans originated by Robert Adam.

In 1817, Johann Erhard Prieger opened the first bathhouse with brine water, forming the basis for a rapidly expanding spa treatment.

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

In 1817, Congress investigated General Andrew Jackson's execution of two British subjects during the First Seminole War.

Congress granted approval by an act on March 3, 1817 that allowed them to buy four townships in the Alabama Territory at $ 2 per acre, with the provision that they cultivate grape vines and olive trees.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1817, her brother William Henry Fuller was born, and her father was elected as a representative in the United States Congress.

He was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of representative-elect Henry B. Lee on February 18, 1817, and served from June 6, 1817, to March 3, 1819.

He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817.

June 29, 1811, to March 4, 1817 ; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirteenth Congress ; chairman, Committee on Militia ( Fourteenth Congress ); after returning to Massachusetts in 1817, he again served in the Massachusetts State Senate, until his death September 21, 1821.

He was elected as a Federalist to the 15th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1817, to March 4, 1819.

Ellsworth's law partner starting in 1817 was his brother-in-law Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court Thomas Scott Williams, who was elected to the U. S. Congress that year and sought a younger partner to manage his practice in his absence.

After his term as governor, he was elected to the United States Senate, serving from March 4, 1817 until his death on November 23, 1817, which was 20 years to the day after his first day in Congress.

His father was Henry Shaw, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 – 21, and his grandfather Samuel Shaw who also served in the U. S. Congress from 1808-1813.

Under the command of Commodore Arthur Sinclair, the USS Congress sailed on December 4, 1817 and arrived at Rio de Janeiro on January 29, 1818.

After admission in 1817, he was elected to be the state's first representative in Congress.

He served in the 15th Congress from 1817 to 1819, when he chaired the Committee on Public Lands.

* John Savage ( Congressman ), member of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth United States Congress in 1815 / 16 and 1817 / 18

A Federalist Party candidate in the Election of 1814, he won the first district seat to represent Pennsylvania in the Fourteenth United States Congress from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817.