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1817 Calendar

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•  January 19, 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
•  January 24, 1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
•  February 6, 1817 – The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
•  March 8, 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
•  April 15, 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
•  May 15, 1817 – 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.
•  June 5, 1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
•  July 4, 1817 – At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
•  November 3, 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
•  December 10, 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

•  February 18, 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
•  May 11, 1817 – Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
•  May 15, 1817 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
•  June 26, 1817 – Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
•  July 12, 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
•  July 29, 1817 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
•  September 5, 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
•  September 24, 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
•  October 23, 1817 – Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
•  November 12, 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual figure (d. 1892)