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1817

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1817 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1817
MDCCCXVII
Ab urbe condita2570
Armenian calendar1266
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԶ
Assyrian calendar6567
Balinese saka calendar1738–1739
Bengali calendar1224
Berber calendar2767
British Regnal year57 Geo. 3 – 58 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2361
Burmese calendar1179
Byzantine calendar7325–7326
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4514 or 4307
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4515 or 4308
Coptic calendar1533–1534
Discordian calendar2983
Ethiopian calendar1809–1810
Hebrew calendar5577–5578
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1873–1874
 - Shaka Samvat1738–1739
 - Kali Yuga4917–4918
Holocene calendar11817
Igbo calendar817–818
Iranian calendar1195–1196
Islamic calendar1232–1233
Japanese calendarBunka 14
(文化14年)
Javanese calendar1744–1745
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4150
Minguo calendar95 before ROC
民前95年
Nanakshahi calendar349
Thai solar calendar2359–2360
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1943 or 1562 or 790
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1944 or 1563 or 791
February 12: Battle of Chacabuco

1817 (MDCCCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1817th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 817th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1817, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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July 4: Construction on the Erie Canal starts.

October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–June

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William III of the Netherlands
Joseph Dalton Hooker

July–December

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Mihail Kogălniceanu

Date unknown

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  • Sophia Wilkens, Swedish social reformer, pioneer in the education of the intellectually disabled (d. 1889)

Deaths

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January–June

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Thomas McKean

July–December

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Jane Austen
Karađorđe
William Bligh

References

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  1. ^ a b c "An 1820 Claim to Congress: Alabama Territory : 1817", The Intruders, TNGenNet Inc., 2001, quick webpage: TN-537[permanent dead link].
  2. ^ Pernambucan Revolution, 1817, From crwflags.com. Retrieved June 30, 2006.
  3. ^ "Prof. Ferrara on the Earthquakes in Sicily in 1823", The Edinburgh Journal of Science p366
  4. ^ James Grant Wilson, The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Volume IV (New York History Company, 1893) p596
  5. ^ Winskill P. T., The Temperance Movement: And Its Workers (Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1891) p80
  6. ^ Cuba (International Bureau of the American Republics, 1905) p82