Major Events
- Jan 18 Argentine general José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
- Mar 8 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
- Sep 9 Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
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1817 in Music
- Jan 25 Gioachino Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" (Cinderella) premieres in Rome
Henry David Thoreau
Theodor MommsenMore People Born in 1817
Fun Fact About 1817
60-70ft sea serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Charles Messier
Jane Austen
Tadeusz Kościuszko
William BlighMore 1817 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1817
- Nov 4 German composer Carl Maria von Weber (30) weds opera singer Caroline Brandt
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
James Monroe
Louis XVIII
Robert Jenkinson