What happened in 1817?

Third Anglo-Maratha War

Wars & Conflicts · Maharashtra

Conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire (1817–1819)

Battle of Chacabuco

Wars & Conflicts · Santiago

1817 battle of the Spanish American wars of independence

Battle of Khadki

Wars & Conflicts · Khadki

1817 Indian colonial conflict

Ndwandwe–Zulu War

Wars & Conflicts · South Africa

Conflict between the Zulu Kingdom and the Ndwandwe

Battle of Catalán

Wars & Conflicts · Arroyo Catalán Grande

1817 conflict

Battle of Mahidpur

Wars & Conflicts · Mahidpur

1817 battle

Battle of Angostura

Wars & Conflicts

1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence

Battle of Arapey

Wars & Conflicts · Salto

1817 battle

Second Battle of Angostura

Wars & Conflicts

1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence

Battle of Apósteles

Wars & Conflicts · Apóstoles

1817 battle in Misiones Province, Argentina.

Battle of San Félix

Wars & Conflicts

1817 battle

Battle of Curapalihue

Wars & Conflicts

1817 battle

Battle of Tarija

Wars & Conflicts · Tarija

1817 Official battle for the independence of the United Provinces of the Río de La Plata

Battle of Clarines

Wars & Conflicts · Clarines

1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence

Battle of Sopachuy

Wars & Conflicts

1817 conflict in Bolivian and Argentine Wars of Independence

Battle of Pagallos

Wars & Conflicts

1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence

Russian conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan

Wars & Conflicts · North Caucasus

1817–1859 conflict in the North Caucasus

Burmese invasions of Assam

Wars & Conflicts · Assam

Burmese invasions of Assam between 1817 and 1826.The most critical time of Assam history..

Treaty of Fort Meigs

Politics & Government · Fort Meigs

1817 treaty between the United States and representatives of seven Native American peoples

Treaty of Poona

Politics & Government · Pune

Treaty between East India Company and the Peshwa of Pune in 1817

Treaty of Paris (1817)

Politics & Government · Paris

1817 international agreement on the sucession of the Duchy of Parma

Charles Messier died

People · Paris

18th- and 19th-century French astronomer

Tadeusz Kościuszko died

People · Solothurn

Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt died

People · Cairo

Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)

Nicolás Joseph Jacquin died

People · Vienna

Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)

Mariano Luis de Urquijo died

People · Paris

Spanish politician (1769-1817)

Abraham Furtado died

People · Bordeaux

Member of the Assembly of Notables

Martin Heinrich Klaproth died

People · Berlin

German chemist (1743-1817)

Olof Swartz died

People · Adolf Fredriks parish

Swedish botanist & taxonomist (1760 - 1818)

William Gregor died

People · Creed

British clergyman and mineralogist

Ignacio María de Álava y Sáenz de Navarrete died

People · Chiclana de la Frontera

Spanish naval commander

Pál Kitaibel died

People · Pest

Hungarian scientist and botanist (1757–1817)

Franz de Paula Triesnecker died

People · Vienna

Austrian astronomer

Yasuaki Aida died

People · Edo

Japanese mathematician

Richard Lovell Edgeworth died

People · Leinster

Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor

Jean-Claude Delamétherie died

People · Paris

French naturalist, mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist (1743-1817)

Li Rui died

People · Suzhou

Chinese mathematician (1768-1817)

Maximus von Imhof died

People · Munich

Greek physicist (1758-1817)

Alexis-Marie de Rochon died

People · Paris

French physicist (1741-1817)

François-Philippe Charpentier died

People · Blois

French artist (1734-1817)

Giovanni Battista Guglielmini died

People · Bologna

Italian physicist

Pasqual Calbó i Caldés died

People · Maó

Spanish painter and writer (1752-1817)

Federigo Zuccari died

People · Barra

Italian astronomer, director of the Observatory of Naples (1783-1817)

Platon Gamaleya died

People · Maliutintsi

Russian Empire naval officer and navigation scientist

Antoine Grimoald Monnet died

People · Paris

French mineralogist and mining expert

John West died

People · Morant Bay

Scottish mathematician (1756-1817)

Anne-Louis Tousard died

People · Paris

Diplomat (1749-1817)

Nathaniel Portlock died

People · Greenwich

British ship's captain

Justin Heinrich Knecht died

People · Biberach an der Riß

German composer, organist and music theorist

Franz Tausch died

People · Berlin

Clarinetist and composer (1762-1817)

Benoît-Joseph Marsollier died

People · Versailles

French writer

Wenzel Krumpholz died

People · Vienna

Czech violinist and composer

Franz Xaver Hammer died

People · Ludwigslust

German gambist, cellist and composer

Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann died

People · Berlin

German singer, harpsichordist and composer (1757-1817)

William Parsons died

People · London

English composer and Master of the King's Musick

Honoré-Antoine Richaud Martelly died

People · Marseille

French dramatist

Henry David Thoreau born

People · Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse

Born in Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse. American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862).

Theodor Mommsen born

People · Garding

Born in Garding. German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903).

Baháʼu'lláh born

People · Mirza Bozorg Nuri House

Born in Mirza Bozorg Nuri House. Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892).

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy born

People · Saint Petersburg

Born in Saint Petersburg. Count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright.

Theodor Storm born

People · Husum

Born in Husum. German writer (1817–1888).

Syed Ahmed Khan born

People · Delhi

Born in Delhi. Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898).

William III of the Netherlands born

People · Palace of the Nation

Born in Palace of the Nation. King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817-1890).

János Arany born

People · Salonta

Born in Salonta. Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817–1882).

Hermann Lotze born

People · Bautzen

Born in Bautzen. German philosopher (1817-1881).

José Zorrilla born

People · Valladolid

Born in Valladolid. Spanish poet, writer, fighter (1817–1893).

Georg Herwegh born

People · Stuttgart

Born in Stuttgart. Poet and politician (1817–1875).

Nikoloz Baratashvili born

People · Tbilisi

Born in Tbilisi. Georgian poet (1817-1844).

Austen Henry Layard born

People · Paris

Born in Paris. British politician (1817–1894).

Mihail Kogălniceanu born

People · Iași

Born in Iași. Romanian statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist (1817–1891).

Carl Vogt born

People · Giessen

Born in Giessen. German-Swiss scientist and politician (1817–1895).

Debendranath Tagore born

People · Kolkata

Born in Kolkata. Indian philosopher (1817–1905).

Táhirih born

People · Qazvin

Born in Qazvin. Influential poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran (1814–1852).

Mykola Kostomarov born

People · Yurasovka

Born in Yurasovka. Russian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885).

Branwell Brontë born

People · Yorkshire

Born in Yorkshire. British artist (1817–1848).

Braxton Bragg born

People · Warrenton

Born in Warrenton. Confederate Army general (1817–1876).

George Henry Lewes born

People · London

Born in London. British philosopher (1817-1878).

Ramón de Campoamor born

People · Piñera

Born in Piñera. Spanish poet and playwright (1817–1901).

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen born

People · Vienna

Born in Vienna. Austrian officer (1817–1895).

Konstantin Aksakov born

People · Aksakovo

Born in Aksakovo. Critic and writer (1817-1860).

Jung Bahadur Rana born

People · Kathmandu

Born in Kathmandu. Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski (1817–1877).

Francesco de Sanctis born

People · Morra De Sanctis

Born in Morra De Sanctis. Italian literary critic, scholar, writer, and politician (1817–1883).

Richard S. Ewell born

People · Georgetown

Born in Georgetown. Confederate Army general (1817–1872).

Jozef Miloslav Hurban born

People · Beckov

Born in Beckov. Slovak writer, journalist, politician, and protestant priest (1817-1888).

Heinrich von Sybel born

People · Düsseldorf

Born in Düsseldorf. German historian (1817–1895).

Heinrich Graetz born

People · Gmina Książ Wielkopolski

Born in Gmina Książ Wielkopolski. Prussian Jewish historian (1817 – 1891).

Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary born

People · Buda

Born in Buda. Archduke of Austria (1817-1867).

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher born

People · Hanover

Born in Hanover. German economist (1817–1894).

Karl Grün born

People · Lüdenscheid

Born in Lüdenscheid. German journalist, political theorist and socialist politician (1817–1887).

Johannes Scherr born

People · Rechberg

Born in Rechberg. German novelist and literary critic (1817–1886).

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg born

People · Biebrich Palace

Born in Biebrich Palace. Duke of Nassau (1839–1866), later Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890–1905).

Karl Theodor von Dalberg died

People · Regensburg

Died in Regensburg. German archbishop of Mainz, later of Regensburg (1744-1817).

Nakşidil Sultan died

People · Istanbul

Died in Istanbul. Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 to 1817.

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau died

People · Dessau

Died in Dessau. Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.

Alfred Des Cloizeaux born

People · Beauvais

Born in Beauvais. French mineralogist (1817-1897).

Tekle Giyorgis I died

People · Axum

Died in Axum. Ethiopian emperor.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Science & Technology · North Kelvinside

Botanical garden in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

Science & Technology

Botanical garden in Switzerland

Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

Science & Technology

Voluntary association

State University of Leuven

Science & Technology

Former university in Leuven (Louvain), Belgium (1817–1835)

Timofei Moșneaga Republican Clinical Hospital

Science & Technology

Hospital in Chișinău, Moldova

Senckenberg Research Institute

Science & Technology

German research institute

University of Michigan

Science & Technology

Public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ghent University

Science & Technology

Dutch-speaking university in Belgium

University of Liège

Science & Technology

Belgian public university founded in 1817

Harvard Law School

Science & Technology · Cambridge

Law school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Science & Technology

University in Vienna, Austria

Moravian Museum

Science & Technology

Museum in Czechia

Presidency University

Science & Technology

State public university in Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Royal Norwegian Naval Academy

Science & Technology · Laksevåg

Military academy in Bergen, Norway

KV17

Exploration & Discovery · Valley of the Kings

Ancient Egyptian tomb

KV30

Exploration & Discovery · Valley of the Kings

Ancient Egyptian tomb

WV25

Exploration & Discovery · Valley of the Kings

Ancient Egyptian tomb

KV31

Exploration & Discovery · Valley of the Kings

Ancient Egyptian tomb

Radovanjski Lug

Exploration & Discovery

Memorial complex near Velika Plana, Serbia

Nejd Expedition

Exploration & Discovery · Najd, Saudi Arabia

Egyptian military conflicts

Cultural heritage monuments in gmina Wiązów

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Wawrzyszów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Nostra Signora delle Grazie

Religion & Belief Systems

Tempio neoclassico detto del Valadier

Religion & Belief Systems

St Andrew's Cathedral

Religion & Belief Systems · Aberdeen

Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

San Fernando Cathedral

Religion & Belief Systems

Roman Catholic cathedral in La Union, Philippines

Temple protestant de Liège - Marcellis

Religion & Belief Systems

Protestant church building

Wadong Nantian Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Taoist temple in Baisha Township, Penghu County 884 Taiwan

Village church Kosilenzien

Religion & Belief Systems · Kosilenzien

Church building in Brandenburg state, Germany

St. Johannes der Täufer (Hohentrüdingen)

Religion & Belief Systems · Hohentrüdingen

Church building in Heidenheim, Middle Franconia, Germany

Mission San Rafael Arcángel

Religion & Belief Systems

Spanish mission located in San Rafael, California

Christ Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church in Guilford, Vermont, usa

Church of Our Saviour

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Killington, United States of America

First Unitarian Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Maryland, United States of America

Red Oak Presbyterian Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Ohio, United States of America

Salem Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Ohio, United States of America

Guilford Center Presbyterian Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in New York, United States of America

Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery

Religion & Belief Systems

Historic church and cemetery in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Old Brick Church

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Athens, United States of America

Reformed Dutch Church of Rensselaer in Watervliet

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in New York, United States of America

Sharon Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Religion & Belief Systems

church building in Virginia, United States of America

Ghighiu Monastery

Religion & Belief Systems · Ghighiu

Heritage site in Prahova County, Romania

Zum Heiland in der Wies

Religion & Belief Systems

Chapel in Niederrieden, Germany

Shover's Green Baptist Chapel

Religion & Belief Systems · Shover's Green

Chapel in Shover's Green, Wadhurst, East Sussex, England, UK

Saint Anthony of Padua church in Tworóg

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Tworóg, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Bank of Montreal

Economy & Trade · First Canadian Place

Canadian investment bank

Mitre Sports International

Economy & Trade · London

English manufacturer of sports equipment

Johnson Matthey

Economy & Trade · London

British company

Koenig & Bauer

Economy & Trade · Würzburg

Company

Uraltransmash

Economy & Trade · Yekaterinburg

Company in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Duravit

Economy & Trade · Hornberg

Company

Armitage Shanks

Economy & Trade · Stoke-on-Trent

British bathroom & plumbing manufacturer

Lanerossi

Economy & Trade · Piovene Rocchette

Italian textile brand

Rothschild banking family of France

Economy & Trade · Paris

French family of bankers

Simonsen & Weel

Economy & Trade · Copenhagen

Danish healthcare equipment supplier

Johnson Service Group

Economy & Trade · Preston Brook

Textile rental business

Jamieson, How & Co.

Economy & Trade · Glasgow

British trading firm

R. & W. Hawthorn

Economy & Trade · Newcastle upon Tyne

Defunct British locomotive manufacturer

1817 Arnedo and Prejano earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Earthquake on the North of Spain in 1817

Great Rebellion of 1817–1818

Social Movements & Revolutions · Uva Province

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

Pentrich Rising

Social Movements & Revolutions · Pentrich

1817 uprising in an English village

Co-Cathedral of St. Alexander, Kyiv

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Kyiv, Ukraine

Støren Church

Architecture & Engineering

Octogonal wooden church in Midtre Gauldal, Norway

Hemne Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Hemne, Norway

Misión El Descanso

Architecture & Engineering

Spanish mission in Baja California, Mexico

Eiken Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Hægebostad, Southern Norway

Vinne Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Verdal, Norway

Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel, Hastings

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

Church of St. James the Great, Sedgley

Architecture & Engineering

Grade II listed church in Gornal, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK

Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church, Bonnyrigg

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Midlothian, Scotland, UK

St Matthew's Anglican Church, Windsor

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in New South Wales, Australia

Igreja de São Pantaleão

Architecture & Engineering

Church in São Luís, Brazil

St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 2 Chapel Court, Aberdeen

Architecture & Engineering · Aberdeen

Church building in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Donaustauf Palace

Architecture & Engineering

Former palace destroyed 1880

Saint Andrew's Cathedral

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Kronstadt, Russia

Hooghly Madrasah

Architecture & Engineering

Public school in Chuchura, West Bengal, India

Arches of Triumph

Architecture & Engineering · Novocherkassk

Monuments of Russian Classicist architecture

West Point Cemetery

Architecture & Engineering · United States Military Academy

Cemetery on the grounds of the military academy in West Point, New York, United States

De Naald

Architecture & Engineering

Monument in Heemstede, Netherlands

Schinkel-Tabernakel von Kulm

Architecture & Engineering

Monument in Varvažov, Czech Republic

Saint Theotokos church, Koprivshtitsa

Architecture & Engineering

Héloïse and Abélard's tomb

Architecture & Engineering · Père Lachaise Cemetery

Tomb in Paris

Sevast'yanov house

Architecture & Engineering

Building in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Saint Martin’s Church

Architecture & Engineering

Parish church building in Calolziocorte, Italy

Teatro Goldoni

Sports & Entertainment · church and convent San Vincenzo d'Annalena

Theatre in Florence Italy

Teatro Arthur Azevedo

Sports & Entertainment

Theatre in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

Tonk State founded

Empires & Countries · Tonk

Tonk State was founded, with its capital at Tonk.

Mthethwa Paramountcy dissolved

Empires & Countries

Mthethwa Paramountcy ceased to exist.

Jaora State founded

Empires & Countries · Jaora

Jaora State was founded, with its capital at Jaora.

Mississippi founded

Empires & Countries · Jackson

Mississippi was founded, with its capital at Jackson.

Republic of the Floridas founded

Empires & Countries · Fernandina Beach

Republic of the Floridas was founded, with its capital at Fernandina Beach.