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1817 Calendar

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•  January 24, 1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
•  February 8, 1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
•  February 12, 1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
•  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.

•  January 8, 1817 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
•  May 15, 1817 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
•  June 27, 1817 – Louise von François, German writer (d. 1893)
•  July 12, 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
•  August 25, 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
•  September 5, 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
•  September 24, 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
•  November 30, 1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
•  December 4, 1817 – Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)
•  December 19, 1817 – James J. Archer, Confederate general (d. 1864)