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Born :09/06/1817Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father
Born :04/13/1817Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
Born :01/31/1817Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia)
Born :03/05/1817Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
Born :11/12/1817Bah 'u'll h (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah 'ˇ faith
Born :03/22/1817Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Born :10/07/1817Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
Born :09/21/1817Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :02/15/1817Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
Born :11/08/1817Claudius Wistar Sears, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Born :11/09/1817Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :02/07/1817Frederick Douglass, Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US govt
Born :02/14/1817Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
Born :04/18/1817George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
Born :05/05/1817George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
Born :07/12/1817Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)
Born :08/16/1817Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
Born :03/26/1817Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Born :10/30/1817Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
Born :09/27/1817Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
Born :07/29/1817James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Born :06/21/1817James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
Born :02/28/1817James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
Born :12/19/1817James Jay Archer, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1864
Born :05/18/1817James William Denver, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :04/01/1817Johannes J van Oosterzee, theologist
Born :07/15/1817John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
Born :07/21/1817John Gilbert, painter/illustrator
Born :02/02/1817John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
Born :09/13/1817John McAuley Palmer, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
Born :04/19/1817John Philip, painter
Born :01/08/1817John Selden Roane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
Born :04/04/1817John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
Born :06/30/1817Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
Born :07/21/1817Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883
Born :02/21/1817Jos‚ Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
Born :03/02/1817J nos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
Born :02/07/1817Leroy Pope Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
Born :02/18/1817Lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :01/15/1817Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
Born :03/19/1817Lewis Henry Little, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :01/01/1817Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist
Born :07/19/1817Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
Born :07/31/1817Philip Cook Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
Born :11/21/1817Richard B Garnett, Brig Gen, killed during Pickett's charge
Born :11/21/1817Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Born :02/08/1817Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
Born :10/17/1817Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
Born :09/09/1817Speed Smith Fry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Born :11/30/1817Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902)
Born :06/17/1817Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 190
Born :02/18/1817Walter Page Lane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
Born :02/19/1817William III, King of Netherlands (1849-90)
Died :04/04/1817Andr‚ Mass‚na Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies
Died :04/12/1817Charles Messier, "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects,", dies
Died :10/18/1817Etienne N M‚hul, Fren organist/opera composer (Chant du d‚part), dies
Died :02/18/1817Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies
Died :06/18/1817Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05), dies
Died :10/16/1817Manuel C Piar, Cura‡aos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
Died :12/15/1817Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
Died :01/01/1817Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies
Died :09/09/1817Paul Cuffe, entrepreneur/civil rights activist, dies at 58
Died :04/04/1817Prince d'Essing, dies
Died :11/21/1817Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
Died :12/07/1817William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies in London
Special :03/02/18171st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
Special :10/20/18171st Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
Special :02/17/18171st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
Special :02/05/18171st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
Special :04/17/18171st US school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
Special :12/30/18171st coffee planted in Hawaii
Special :06/24/18171st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
Special :07/12/18171st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
Special :11/25/18171st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
Special :01/07/18172nd Bank of the United States opens
Special :07/04/1817Construction on Erie Canal begins
Special :08/18/1817Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
Special :09/22/1817John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
Special :07/12/1817Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
Special :12/10/1817Mississippi admitted as 20th state
Special :01/25/1817Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premiers in Rome
Special :01/18/1817San Martˇn leads a revolutionary army over Andes
Special :03/03/1817Territory of Alabama organized
Special :11/27/1817US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

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