Today in History for Year 1817

Months in Year 1817: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 7th - 2nd Bank of US opens
Jan 18th - San Martinleads a revolutionary army over Andes
Jan 22nd - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
Jan 25th - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
Jan 31st - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna
Feb 5th - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
Feb 17th - 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
Mar 2nd - 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
Mar 3rd - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
Mar 8th - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
Mar 25th - Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
Apr 15th - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
Apr 17th - 1st US school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
Apr 22nd - Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
May 15th - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
May 15th - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May 16th - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
Jun 24th - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
Jul 4th - Construction on Erie Canal begins
Jul 12th - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
Jul 12th - Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
Aug 18th - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
Sep 9th - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
Sep 22nd - John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
Oct 9th - University of Gent officially opens
Oct 20th - 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
Nov 20th - 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
Nov 25th - 1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
Nov 27th - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
Dec 10th - Mississippi admitted as 20th state
Dec 16th - Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon
Dec 30th - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 101

Jan 8th - John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
Jan 8th - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
Jan 14th - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna)
Jan 15th - Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
Jan 18th - Jacques Gregoir, composer
Jan 31st - Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia)
Feb 2nd - John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
Feb 2nd - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer
Feb 3rd - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
Feb 3rd - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
Feb 3rd - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
Feb 7th - Leroy Pope Walker, US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
Feb 8th - Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
Feb 15th - Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
Feb 18th - Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Feb 18th - Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Feb 19th - Willem III, last male King of Netherlands (1849-90)
Feb 21st - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
Feb 22nd - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
Feb 22nd - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
Feb 23rd - George Watts, London, painter
Feb 28th - James Craig, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
Mar 1st - Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
Mar 2nd - Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
Mar 4th - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
Mar 5th - Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
Mar 6th - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
Mar 19th - Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Mar 22nd - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Mar 24th - Aime Maillart, composer
Mar 26th - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Mar 27th - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
Mar 28th - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer
Mar 29th - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet
Apr 1st - Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist
Apr 2nd - Teodulo Mabellini, composer
Apr 4th - John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Apr 13th - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
Apr 18th - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
Apr 19th - John Philip, painter
May 2nd - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
May 5th - George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
May 11th - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
May 14th - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
May 15th - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
May 18th - James William Denver, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
May 31st - Edouard Deldevez, composer
May 31st - Georg Herwegh, writer
Jun 17th - Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Jun 21st - James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
Jun 30th - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
Jul 6th - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
Naturalist/Pacifist Henry David Thoreau (Jul 12th) Jul 12th - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond), (d. 1862)
Jul 15th - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
Jul 17th - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
Jul 19th - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
Jul 21st - John Gilbert, painter/illustrator
Jul 21st - Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883
Jul 24th - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
Jul 29th - James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Jul 30th - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
Jul 31st - Philip Cook Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Aug 3rd - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria (Battle at Custozza)
Aug 13th - Karoly Thern, composer
Aug 14th - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
Aug 16th - Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
Aug 17th - Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71)
Aug 24th - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875)
Sep 5th - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
Sep 6th - Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father
Sep 7th - Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark (d. 1898)
Sep 9th - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Sep 13th - John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72)
Sep 14th - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
Sep 21st - Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army)
Sep 21st - Charles Balmer, composer
Sep 23rd - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer
Sep 24th - Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras)
Sep 27th - Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
Oct 2nd - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer
Oct 5th - Eduard Franck, composer
Oct 7th - Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Oct 10th - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI
Oct 17th - Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
Oct 17th - Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
Oct 23rd - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
Oct 27th - Antoni Katski, composer
Oct 30th - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
Nov 8th - Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Nov 8th - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
Nov 9th - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
Nov 12th - Carlo Pedrotti, composer
Nov 12th - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
Nov 12th - Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
Nov 21st - Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Nov 24th - Juan de la Cruz Moreno Maisonave, Guatemala
Nov 25th - John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
Nov 30th - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902)
Dec 2nd - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
Dec 8th - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 41 of 41

Jan 1st - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73
Jan 12th - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
Jan 14th - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer, dies at 87
Jan 16th - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55
Jan 16th - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
Jan 28th - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55
Feb 9th - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
Feb 18th - Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72
Feb 20th - Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
Mar 1st - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
Mar 13th - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
Mar 18th - Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
Apr 2nd - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
Apr 4th - André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince d'Essing and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
Apr 6th - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
Apr 12th - Charles Messier, "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects,", dies
May 21st - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
Jun 18th - Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05), dies
Jun 23rd - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer, dies at 63
Jun 24th - Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83
Jun 30th - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
Jul 14th - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
Novelist Jane Austen (Jul 18th) Jul 18th - Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41
Aug 7th - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
Sep 9th - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
Oct 2nd - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
Oct 12th - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66
Oct 15th - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
Oct 16th - Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
Oct 18th - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
Oct 26th - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
Nov 1st - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
Nov 7th - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
Nov 8th - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
Nov 14th - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
Nov 21st - Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
Dec 1st - Justin Heinrich Knechtl, composer, dies at 65
Dec 7th - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
Dec 11th - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
Dec 12th - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
Dec 15th - Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies