19th January » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, Crossing of the Andes named crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
24th January » Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
8th February » Juan Gregorio de las Heras Las Heras Crossing of the Andes crosses the Andes with an army to join José de San Martín San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
12th February » An Argentina or Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after Crossing of the Andes named crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
8th March » The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
15th April » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
15th May » 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.
5th June » The first Great Lakes steamer, the PS Frontenac called 'Frontenac', is launched.
4th July » In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
30th October » The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
10th December » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
Famous Birthdays in 1817
8th January » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893)
3rd February » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1881)
3rd February » Émile Prudent, French pianist and composer (d. 1863)
17th February » Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
18th February » Lewis Armistead, American general (d. 1863)
21st February » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1893)
22nd February » Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1st March » Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
2nd March » János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1882)
4th March » Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
5th March » Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
6th March » Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
22nd March » Braxton Bragg, American general (d. 1876)
11th May » Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballerina and choreographer (d. 1909)
14th May » Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
15th May » Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
26th June » Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (d. 1848)
27th June » Louise von François, German author (d. 1893)
30th June » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (d. 1911)
6th July » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905)
12th July » Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher and author (d. 1862)
15th July » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (d. 1898)
29th July » Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
29th July » Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, composer, and conductor (d. 1893)
3rd August » Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (d. 1895)
14th August » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1874)
25th August » Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
5th September » Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1875)
6th September » Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 1893)
24th September » Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
17th October » Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
23rd October » Pierre Larousse or Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer and author (d. 1875)
25th November » John Bigelow, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1911)
30th November » Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
2nd December » Heinrich von Sybel, German historian, academic, and politician (d. 1895)
4th December » Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)
8th December » Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
19th December » James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (d. 1864)
25th December » John Hewitt Jellett, Irish priest and academic (d. 1888)
Famous Deaths in History for 1817
1st January » Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
16th January » Alexander J. Dallas (statesman) called Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
2nd April » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
4th April » André Masséna, French general (b. 1758)
12th April » Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
24th June » Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1734)
14th July » Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author (b. 1766)
7th August » Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
31st August » Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, 39th List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador or Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1747)
15th October » Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general (b. 1746)
18th October » Étienne Méhul known as Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
26th October » Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Dutch-Austrian chemist and botanist (b. 1727)
8th November » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
14th November » Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795)
7th December » William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
12th December » Tekle Giyorgis I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1751)