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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.
•  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.
•  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.
•  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 21, 1817 – Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893)
•  March 6, 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
•  June 26, 1817 – Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
•  June 30, 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
•  July 6, 1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
•  August 3, 1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
•  August 14, 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
•  September 6, 1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
•  November 12, 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian spiritual figure (d. 1892)
•  December 19, 1817 – James J. Archer, Confederate general (d. 1864)