What happened in 1817?
131 recorded events in 1817, including 69 in people, 15 in wars & conflicts and 13 in economy & trade. A further 2 events are dated only to the wider period.
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Wars & Conflicts 15
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Third Anglo-Maratha War
Conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire (1817–1819)
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Battle of Chacabuco
1817 battle of the Spanish American wars of independence
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Battle of Khadki
1817 Indian colonial conflict
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Ndwandwe–Zulu War
Conflict between the Zulu Kingdom and the Ndwandwe
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Battle of Catalán
1817 conflict
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Battle of Mahidpur
1817 battle
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Battle of Angostura
1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence
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Battle of Arapey
1817 battle
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Second Battle of Angostura
1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence
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Battle of Apósteles
1817 battle in Misiones Province, Argentina.
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Battle of San Félix
1817 battle
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Battle of Curapalihue
1817 battle
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Battle of Tarija
1817 Official battle for the independence of the United Provinces of the Río de La Plata
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Battle of Clarines
1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence
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Battle of Sopachuy
1817 conflict in Bolivian and Argentine Wars of Independence
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Politics & Government 2
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Treaty of Fort Meigs
1817 treaty between the United States and representatives of seven Native American peoples
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Treaty of Poona
Treaty between East India Company and the Peshwa of Pune in 1817
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People 69
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Charles Messier died
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
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Tadeusz Kościuszko died
Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)
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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt died
Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)
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Nicolás Joseph Jacquin died
Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
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Mariano Luis de Urquijo died
Spanish politician (1769-1817)
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Abraham Furtado died
Member of the Assembly of Notables
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth died
German chemist (1743-1817)
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Olof Swartz died
Swedish botanist & taxonomist (1760 - 1818)
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William Gregor died
British clergyman and mineralogist
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Ignacio María de Álava y Sáenz de Navarrete died
Spanish naval commander
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Pál Kitaibel died
Hungarian scientist and botanist (1757–1817)
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Franz de Paula Triesnecker died
Austrian astronomer
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Yasuaki Aida died
Japanese mathematician
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth died
Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor
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Jean-Claude Delamétherie died
French naturalist, mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist (1743-1817)
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Li Rui died
Chinese mathematician (1768-1817)
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Maximus von Imhof died
Greek physicist (1758-1817)
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Alexis-Marie de Rochon died
French physicist (1741-1817)
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François-Philippe Charpentier died
French artist (1734-1817)
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Giovanni Battista Guglielmini died
Italian physicist
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Pasqual Calbó i Caldés died
Spanish painter and writer (1752-1817)
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Federigo Zuccari died
Italian astronomer, director of the Observatory of Naples (1783-1817)
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Platon Gamaleya died
Russian Empire naval officer and navigation scientist
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Antoine Grimoald Monnet died
French mineralogist and mining expert
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John West died
Scottish mathematician (1756-1817)
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Anne-Louis Tousard died
Diplomat (1749-1817)
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Nathaniel Portlock died
British ship's captain
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Justin Heinrich Knecht died
German composer, organist and music theorist
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Franz Tausch died
Clarinetist and composer (1762-1817)
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Benoît-Joseph Marsollier died
French writer
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Wenzel Krumpholz died
Czech violinist and composer
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Franz Xaver Hammer died
German gambist, cellist and composer
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Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann died
German singer, harpsichordist and composer (1757-1817)
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William Parsons died
English composer and Master of the King's Musick
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Honoré-Antoine Richaud Martelly died
French dramatist
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Henry David Thoreau born
Born in Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse. American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862).
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Theodor Mommsen born
Born in Garding. German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903).
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Baháʼu'lláh born
Born in Mirza Bozorg Nuri House. Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892).
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy born
Born in Saint Petersburg. Count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright.
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Theodor Storm born
Born in Husum. German writer (1817–1888).
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Syed Ahmed Khan born
Born in Delhi. Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898).
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William III of the Netherlands born
Born in Palace of the Nation. King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817-1890).
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János Arany born
Born in Salonta. Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817–1882).
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Hermann Lotze born
Born in Bautzen. German philosopher (1817-1881).
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José Zorrilla born
Born in Valladolid. Spanish poet, writer, fighter (1817–1893).
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Georg Herwegh born
Born in Stuttgart. Poet and politician (1817–1875).
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Nikoloz Baratashvili born
Born in Tbilisi. Georgian poet (1817-1844).
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Austen Henry Layard born
Born in Paris. British politician (1817–1894).
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Mihail Kogălniceanu born
Born in Iași. Romanian statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist (1817–1891).
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Carl Vogt born
Born in Giessen. German-Swiss scientist and politician (1817–1895).
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Debendranath Tagore born
Born in Kolkata. Indian philosopher (1817–1905).
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Táhirih born
Born in Qazvin. Influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran (1814–1852).
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Mykola Kostomarov born
Born in Yurasovka. Russian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885).
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Branwell Brontë born
Born in Yorkshire. British artist (1817–1848).
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Braxton Bragg born
Born in Warrenton. Confederate Army general (1817–1876).
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George Henry Lewes born
Born in London. British philosopher (1817-1878).
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Ramón de Campoamor born
Born in Piñera. Spanish poet and playwright (1817–1901).
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Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen born
Born in Vienna. Austrian officer (1817–1895).
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Konstantin Aksakov born
Born in Aksakovo. Critic and writer (1817-1860).
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Jung Bahadur Rana born
Born in Kathmandu. Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski (1817–1877).
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Francesco de Sanctis born
Born in Morra De Sanctis. Italian literary critic, scholar, writer, and politician (1817–1883).
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Richard S. Ewell born
Born in Georgetown. Confederate Army general (1817–1872).
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Jozef Miloslav Hurban born
Born in Beckov. Slovak writer, journalist, politician, and protestant priest (1817-1888).
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Heinrich von Sybel born
Born in Düsseldorf. German historian (1817–1895).
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Heinrich Graetz born
Born in Gmina Książ Wielkopolski. Prussian Jewish historian (1817 – 1891).
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Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary born
Born in Buda. Archduke of Austria (1817-1867).
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Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher born
Born in Hanover. German economist (1817–1894).
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Karl Grün born
Born in Lüdenscheid. German journalist, political theorist and socialist politician (1817–1887).
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Johannes Scherr born
Born in Rechberg. German novelist and literary critic (1817–1886).
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Science & Technology 6
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Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Botanical garden in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
Botanical garden in Switzerland
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Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research
Voluntary association
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State University of Leuven
Former university in Leuven (Louvain), Belgium (1817–1835)
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Timofei Moșneaga Republican Clinical Hospital
Hospital in Chișinău, Moldova
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Senckenberg Research Institute
German research institute
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Exploration & Discovery 4
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KV17
Ancient Egyptian tomb
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KV30
Ancient Egyptian tomb
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WV25
Ancient Egyptian tomb
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KV31
Ancient Egyptian tomb
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Religion & Belief Systems 3
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Cultural heritage monuments in gmina Wiązów
Church in Wawrzyszów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Nostra Signora delle Grazie
Nostra Signora delle Grazie (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Tempio neoclassico detto del Valadier
Tempio neoclassico detto del Valadier (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Economy & Trade 13
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Bank of Montreal
Canadian investment bank
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Mitre Sports International
English manufacturer of sports equipment
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Johnson Matthey
British company
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Koenig & Bauer
Company
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Uraltransmash
Company in Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Duravit
Company
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Armitage Shanks
British bathroom & plumbing manufacturer
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Lanerossi
Italian textile brand
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Rothschild banking family of France
French family of bankers
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Simonsen & Weel
Danish healthcare equipment supplier
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Johnson Service Group
Textile rental business
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Jamieson, How & Co.
British trading firm
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R. & W. Hawthorn
Defunct British locomotive manufacturer
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Social Movements & Revolutions 1
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Great Rebellion of 1817–1818
Third Kandyan War with the British, in what is now Uva, Sri Lanka, then a province of the Kingdom of Kandy, against the British colonial government under Governor Robert Brownrigg
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Architecture & Engineering 13
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Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, Kyiv
Church building in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Støren Church
Octogonal wooden church in Midtre Gauldal, Norway
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Hemne Church
Church in Hemne, Norway
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Misión El Descanso
Spanish mission in Baja California, Mexico
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Eiken Church
Church building in Hægebostad, Southern Norway
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Vinne Church
Church in Verdal, Norway
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Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel, Hastings
Church in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
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Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley
Grade II listed church in Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
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Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church, Bonnyrigg
Church in Midlothian, Scotland, UK
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St Matthew's Anglican Church, Windsor
Church building in New South Wales, Australia
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Igreja de São Pantaleão
Church in São Luís, Brazil
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St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 2 Chapel Court, Aberdeen
Church building in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Donaustauf Palace
Former palace destroyed 1880
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Sports & Entertainment 2
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Teatro Goldoni
Theatre in Florence Italy
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Teatro Arthur Azevedo
Theatre in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil
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Empires & Countries 3
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Tonk State founded
Tonk State was founded, with its capital at Tonk.
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Mthethwa Paramountcy dissolved
Mthethwa Paramountcy ceased to exist.
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Jaora State founded
Jaora State was founded, with its capital at Jaora.
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Dated to the wider period
Wikidata records these 2 entries only to a century, decade or millennium rather than to a specific year. They are listed here because 1817 is where that broader date falls, not because they are known to have happened in 1817.
19th century 2
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Bhadrakali Temple
Hindu temple near Tundikhel, in Kathmandu, Nepal
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Bhadrakali Temple
Hindu temple in Pokhara, Nepal
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