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.

This totality is itself, however, but a link in the chain of the three sciences of Logic, Nature and Spirit, as developed by Hegel in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1817 ), that, when taken as a whole, comprise a “ circle of circles .”

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.

Two years later, in 1817, Shah Khalil Allah was killed during a conflict between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.

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 building was built between 1817 and 1821 in Neoclassical style.

A major concern of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit ( 1807 ) and of the philosophy of Spirit that he lays out in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1817 – 1830 ) is the interrelation between individual humans, which he conceives in terms of " mutual recognition.

Along with the Rush – Bagot Treaty of 1817, this marked the beginning of improved relations between the British Empire and its former colonies, and paved the way for better relations between the U. S. and Canada.

James Madison engraving by David Edwin from between 1809 and 1817

Diarist Anne Lister, captivated by Butler and Ponsonby, recorded her affairs with women between 1817 and 1840.

After the invention of malted barley roasted until black to impart a darker colour and distinct burnt taste to the beer in 1817, Irish brewers dropped the use of brown malt, using patent malt and pale malt only, while English brewers continued using some brown malt, giving a difference in style between English and Irish porters.

Deaths in India between 1817 and 1860 are estimated to have exceeded 15 million persons.

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.

From 1812 to 1814, Cattaraugus County was incorporated in Allegany County ; from 1814 to 1817, records of the county were divided between Belmont ( Allegany County ) and Buffalo ( then in Niagara County ).

From 1814 to 1817, records of Cattaraugus County were divided between Belmont ( the seat of Allegany County ) and Buffalo ( then in Niagara County ).

He also helped re-organizing the American Academy of the Fine Arts in 1808 served as its president between 1813 and 1817.

Here he was commissioned to make the colossal series of statues of Christ and the twelve Apostles for the rebuilding of Vor Frue Kirke ( from 1922 known as the Copenhagen Cathedral ) between 1817 and 1829, after its having been destroyed in the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.

He built a dock along the waterfront in the neighborhood in 1817 and began offering daily steam ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan.

The Chumash people moved from their villages to the Franciscan missions between 1772 and 1817.

The Irish began arriving in 1817 and settled in large numbers between 1830 and 1850.

The wooden covered bridge was constructed just north of Port Deposit between 1817 and 1818 and had to be rebuilt after a span burned in 1823.

Extensive work on the gardens was carried out between 1817 and 1820, and they may have been laid out in the Picturesque style by Richard Greswell in 1827.

It is uncertain how the bell came to be cracked ; the damage occurred sometime between 1817 and 1846.

However, the many blind tests from 1817 to the present ( as of 2012 ) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivari's violins and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.

The Anglo-Merina treaty of friendship was sealed by a blood oath between Radama and the British envoy Captain Le Sage in 1817.

Cuvier's papers on the so-called Mollusca began appearing as early as 1792, but most of his memoirs on this branch were published in the Annales du museum between 1802 and 1815 ; they were subsequently collected as Mémoires pour servir à l ' histoire et à l ' anatomie des mollusques, published in one volume at Paris in 1817.

Skat was developed by the members of the Brommesche Tarok-Gesellschaft between 1810 and 1817 in Altenburg, in what is now the Federated State of Thuringia, Germany, based on the three-player game of Tarock, also known as Tarot, and the four-player game of Schafkopf ( the American equivalent being Sheepshead ).

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.

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.

In 1817, a large group of Presbyterians from North Carolina settled in the neighborhood of Brazeau, an area roughly bounded by the Mississippi River and the Cinque Hommes and Apple Creek.

By July 14, 1817, a small party of pioneers had settled at White Bluff on the Tombigbee River, at the present site of Demopolis, founding the Vine and Olive Colony.

In 1817, the boundary line was established for the purchase of all lands east of the Chattahoochee River from the forks of the Soque and Chattahoochee Rivers in a direct northerly line to the Tallulah River.

In 1817, George Weems established the Weems Steamboat Company, connecting Trueman Point to other landings along the Patuxent River.

Because of confusion with another Huron River south of Detroit, on July 17, 1824, the Michigan Territorial Legislature renamed both the township and the river after DeWitt Clinton, the popular governor of New York from 1817 to 1823 who was largely responsible for building the Erie Canal which enabled many settlers to come to Michigan.

Later, in 1817, Zephania W. Bunce sailed up the St. Clair River and settled at the place of the mill, naming it Bunce Creek.

A town plat was laid out in 1817 at the Foot of the Rapids of the Maumee River, and within a decade, the settlement was gaining recognition as a major trans-shipment point connecting Lake Erie and the land to the west.

French fur traders were believed to have established a temporary village near Muskogee in 1806, but the first permanent settlement was established in 1817 on the south bank of the Verdigris River, north of Muskogee.

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.

Over the next few years Rennie also attained a deserved reputation as a builder of bridges, combining stone with new cast-iron techniques to create previously unheard-of low, wide, elliptical arches, at Leeds Bridge, and in London at Waterloo Bridge ( 1811 – 1817 ), with its nine equal arches and perfectly flat roadway ( thought to be influenced by Thomas Harrison's design of Skerton Bridge over the River Lune in Lancaster ).

In 1817, there was a proposal for an Aire and Dun Canal, to connect Knottingley to the Dutch River at Newbridge, with a branch to Doncaster, and another for a Went and Wakefield Canal, to connect Cold Hiendley on the Barnsley Canal to Newbridge on the Don.

He left the sea in 1817 and became an apprentice under Christian Bergh, a prosperous shipbuilder on the East River.

And then in 1817, perhaps inspired by the Erie Canal, businessmen proposed digging a canal to connect the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers — beginning with the Sugar River, and using its source, Lake Sunapee, as a reservoir.

In March 1817 John Oxley was instructed to take charge of an expedition to explore and survey the course of the Lachlan River.

They reached the Lachlan River on 25 April 1817 and commenced to follow its course, with part of the stores being conveyed in boats.

They left the Lachlan up-stream of the present site of Lake Cargelligo and crossed to the Bogan River and then across to the upper waters of the Macquarie, which they followed back to Bathurst ( arriving on 29 August 1817 ).

* The Allan Cunningham Project, Allan Cunningham, botanist explorer 1791-1839, accompanied John Oxley on his journey along the Lachlan River in 1817

Later, in 1817, he was sent to the Columbia River to formally take over the Oregon Country for the United States, which was completed in 1818.

In 1817 Rochester served on a committee to petition the state to build what would become the Erie Canal on a proposed northern route that included a route across the Genesee River at Rochesterville.

In about 1817, Chief Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa group in the south near the Tugela River, entered into an alliance with the Tsonga, who controlled the trade routes to Delagoa Bay ( now Maputo ).

Lands north of the river and downstream of Defiance were ceded in 1807, and the rest of the Maumee River valley was ceded in 1817.