* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

* 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )

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.

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 ).

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 ).

* 2 Duchess and Duke of Lucca ( 1817 – 1847 )

* 1817 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician ( d. 1896 )

* 1775 – Jane Austen, English writer ( d. 1817 )

* George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough ( 1739 – 1817 ), elder son of the 3rd Duke

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

* 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist ( d. 1817 )

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

* July 5 – Lewis A. Armistead, Confederate general ( b. 1817 )

On April 30, 1807, he defeated the incumbent Governor Morgan LewisTompkins received 35, 074 votes, Lewis 30, 989 – and remained in office as Governor of New York until 1817.

Southfield was surveyed in 1817 according to the plan by Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass.

Johann Ludwig ( also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis ) Burckhardt ( November 24, 1784 – October 15, 1817 ) was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.

* John Bower Lewis ( 1817 – 1874 ), Canadian politician

* Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge 1817 – 1892, founder of Bainbridge Department Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first such store in the world ( still the largest John Lewis outside London ).

Lewis Gordon first proposed a town plan survey for Coonabarabran in 1859 although the area had been opened up by a Government-sponsored expedition in 1817.

According to the slave registers, Hordley was co-owned with George Scott and Matthew Henry Scott and their shares were purchased by Lewis in 1817.

Lewis Addison Armistead ( February 18, 1817 – July 5, 1863 ) was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was wounded, captured, and died after Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Lewis Eliphalet Parsons ( 28 April 1817 – 8 June 1895 ) was the appointed provisional and 19th Governor of Alabama from June to December, 1865, following the American Civil War.

Beneficial utility was first recognized as a requirement in United States patent law in the 1817 case Lowell v. Lewis ; the utility bar enunciated in this requires that the patented invention “ not be frivolous or injurious to the well-being, good policy, or sound morals of society ”.

Sergeant John Ordway ( c. 1775 – c. 1817 ), the youngest of ten siblings, was an important part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition across the United States.

John Bower Lewis, QC ( March 18, 1817 – January 24, 1874 ) was the second mayor of Bytown in 1848, the first mayor of Ottawa from 1855 to 1857, and a member of the 2nd Canadian Parliament from 1872 to 1873.

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

In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.

Later, browsing in an old issue of the Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, she found a description of a handsome gilt pier-table purchased in 1817 by President James Monroe.

In 1817 the lawyers were generally debating the legal inviolability of private contracts and charters.

The last and principal acquisition was that of Toftfield ( afterwards named Huntlyburn ), purchased in 1817.

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

Canova in 1817 by George Hayter ( British Embassy, Paris ) There was, however, another proof, which modesty forbade him to mention, an ever-active benevolence, especially towards artists.

In 1817 he started a music publishing business and 1818, partnered with Pietro Cappi to create the music publishing firm of Cappi & Diabelli.

Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.

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 taxon Branchiopoda was erected by Pierre André Latreille in 1817, initially at the rank of order.

The Philharmonic Society of London originally commissioned the symphony in 1817.

Beethoven's sketchbooks show that bits of musical material that ultimately appeared in the symphony were written in 1811 and 1817.

His father had Benjamin baptised in July 1817 following a dispute with their synagogue.

From 1817, Benjamin attended a school at Higham Hill, in Walthamstow, under Eliezer Cogan.