A Regency Era Timeline 1817 in progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.

I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1817:

Year

Month Day

Event



1817

Jan 17

Jose Francisco de San Martin led a revolutionary army from Argentina over Andes into Chile.



1817

Jan 25

Giocchino Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola” premiered in Rome. It was based on the Cinderella story.



1817

January

January: The satirical radical journal Black Dwarf begins begins publication in London by Thomas Wooler. Within three months, he will be arrrested and charged with seditous libel. He is acquitted and will continue publishing Black Dwarf until 1824.



1817

Feb 2

John Glover, English chemist (sulphuric acid), was born.



1817

Feb 8

Richard Stoddert Ewell (d.1872(), Lt Gen (Confederate Army), was born.



1817

Feb 12

Argentina’s Jose de San Martin, having led a revolutionary army over the Andes into Chile, helped defeat the Spanish forces at Chacabuco. The royalists lost 500 men in the battle and another 600 were taken prisoner.



1817

Feb 12

Under the leadership of Bernardo O‘Higgins, Chile gained its independence from Spain, when a combined Argentine and Chilean army defeated the Spaniards. O‘Higgins went on to become head of state on February 17, supported by the army but not favored by the oligarchy because he sought abolition of their privileges. Once the threat from Spain was eliminated from the region, opposition to O‘Higgins mounted. General unrest and a poor harvest combined to force O‘Higgins to abdicate his position in 1823. The official proclamation was made on Feb 12, 1818.



1817

Feb 14

Frederick Douglass (d.1895), “The Great Emancipator,” was born in Maryland as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was the son of a slave and a white father who bought his own freedom and published “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass” (1845) a memoir of his life as a slave. “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”



1817

Feb 17

A street in Baltimore became the first to be lighted with gas from America’s first gas company.



1817

Feb 18

Lewis Addison Armistead (d.1863), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born. He died leading “Pickett’s Charge” on the final day of the Gettysburg battle.



1817

Feb 18

Walter Paye Lane (d.1892), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born.



1817

Feb 19

William III, King of the Netherlands, was born.



1817

Mar 2

The 1st US Evangelical church building was dedicated in New Berlin, PA.



1817

Mar 3

Mississippi Territory was divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi.



1817

Mar 3

The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans was opened.



1817

Mar 22

Braxton Bragg (d.1876), Gen (Confederate Army), was born.



1817

Mar 25

Tsar Alexander I recommended the formation of Society of Israeli Christians.



1817

March

March: James Monroe becomes fifth President of the United States.



1817

March

March: Parliament passes the Coercion Acts against seditious meetings, primarily to suppress civil disturbances such as 1816′s Spa Fields Riots and the various activities of the Luddites. Among other things, they temporarily suspense habeas corpus.



1817

Apr 15

The first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn.



1817

Apr 17

1st US school for deaf  was founded in Hartford, Conn.



1817

Apr 18

George Henry Lewes, philosophical writer, was born.



1817

April

April: The first edition of Blackwood’s Magazine is published, as a conservative rival to the Whig quarterly Edinburgh Review..



1817

April

April: The infamous imposter, Princess Caraboo, makes her first appearance in England.



1817

June

June: Actor John Philip Kemble makes his last appearance on the London stage in the role of Coriolanus at Covent Garden.



1817

18-Jul

On July 18, Jane Austen dies.



1817

Jul 1

Dewitt Clinton (1769-1828) began serving his first term as governor of New York and continued to 1822.



1817

Jul 12

Henry David Thoreau (d.1862), essayist, naturalist and poet, was born in Concord, Mass. His work included “On Walden Pond.” He referred to the three Greek goddesses of fate: Clotho (spinner of the thread of destiny), Lachesis (disposer of lots) and especially Atropos (who holds the scissors that will cut endeavor short). “We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that never turns aside.” He was also the author of the essays “Civil Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts.”



1817

Jul 14

Madame de Stael (51), writer and daughter of former French finance minister Jacques Necker, died. She was intimate with Benjamin Constant and their intellectual collaboration made them one of the most important intellectual pairs of their time. In 2005 Maria Fairweather authored “Madame de Stael.” In 2008 Renee Winegarten authored the dual biography “Germaine de Stael & Benjamin Constant.”



1817

Jul 18

Jane Austen (b.1775), English writer, died at age 41. In 1869 her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh published “A Memoir of Jane Austen.”



1817

July

July: Author Jane Austen dies at age 41.



1817

Aug 18

Gloucester, Mass., newspapers told of a wild sea serpent seen offshore.



1817

Aug 24

Aleksei K. Tolstoy, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, writer, was born.



1817

Sep 21

Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.



1817

Sep 23

Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, was born.



1817

Oct 13

William Kirby, Canadian writer, was born.



1817

Oct 15

Tadeusz AB Kosciusko (b.1746), Polish Lt-Gen. and American Revolution freedom fighter, died.



1817

Oct 19

Tom Taylor, British playwright, was born. His play “Our American Cousin” was being performed at Ford’s Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe.



1817

Oct 20

The 1st Mississippi “Showboat,” left Nashville on maiden voyage.



1817

Oct

Pres. and Mrs. James Monroe moved back into the restored White House.



1817

6-Nov

On November 6, Princess Charlotte, then heir to the throne of England, dies with her stillborn son after a painful labor. The nation mourns.



1817

Nov 8

Andrea Appiana (63), Italian royal painter of Napoleon, died.



1817

Nov 9

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers), was born.



1817

Nov 10

The Tennessee legislature enacted laws that defined the common boundary with Georgia and created a boundary commission to jointly survey and mark the state border.



1817

Nov 12

Mirza Hoseyn ‘Ali Nuri (Baha’ Ullah), founder of the Baha’i faith, was born.



1817

Nov 20

1st Seminole War began in Florida. [see Nov 27]



1817

Nov 21

Richard Brooke Garnett (d1863), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born. He died at Gettysburg.



1817

Nov 22

Fredric Cailliaud discovered the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.



1817

Nov 27

US soldiers attacked a Florida Indian village and began the Seminole War. [see Nov 20]



1817

Nov

William Wirt was selected as the attorney general. He served for 11 years and 3 months.



1817

November

November: Princess Charlotte dies giving birth to a stillborn son.



1817

November

November: Rossini premiers his opera La Cenerentola (Cinderella) in Rome.



1817

Dec 7

William Bligh (63), British naval officer of “Bounty” infamy, died.



1817

Dec 10

Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state of the Union.



1817

Dec 16

The Georgia legislature enacted laws that defined the common boundary with Tennessee and created a boundary commission to jointly survey and mark the state border.



1817

Dec 28

Benjamin Robert Haydon (d.1846), British painter, threw a dinner party in London to show his nearly completed painting “Christ’s Entry Into Jerusalem” and to introduce poet John Keats to William Wordsworth. Other guests included essayist Charles Lamb. In 2002 Penelope Hughes-Hallett authored “The Immortal Dinner.”



1817

Dec

The book “Northanger Abbey,” by English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817), was published following her death in July. It was written around 1798-1799 and revised in 1803.



1817



A third Anglo-Maratha War begins as the British governor general Lord Hastings sends troops into Maratha territory while conducting operations against Pindari robber bands.



1817



Colombian patriot La Pola is executed at age 22 by the Spanish firing squad in mid November at Santa Fe. She had been active in the cause of independence for her country, New Granada, since the age of 15.



1817



Dr. William Kitchiner publishes his cookbook Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook’s Oracle.



1817



Jane Austen dies.



1817



John Keats publishes Poems.



1817



Maria Edgeworth publishes Ormond.



1817



Mexican patriot Gertrudis Bocanegra is tried and sentenced by the Spaniards, then executed on October 10 at the age of 52. Her husband was killed in battle and she had been sent to obtain military information and persuade royalist troops to come over to the rebel side. She was imprisoned when caught, along with her daughters.



1817



Napoleon writes on January 9 to Gaspard Gourgaud, “Nature intended women to be our slaves…They are our property, we are not theirs…They belong to us, just as a tree which bears fruit belongs to the gardener. What a mad idea to demand equality for women!…Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”



1817



Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.



1817



The Bank of New South Wales opens.



1817



The British secretary for Ireland Robert Peel establishes a regular constabulary for Ireland. The Irish will call the constables “Peelers.”



1817



The Dulwich College Picture Gallery opens to the public in the London borough of Southwark. Designed by architect John Soane, it is the world’s first public art gallery.



1817



The Essay on the Principles of Population by Englishman Thomas Malthus is republished, which rejects any form of artificial birth control and states that the misery of overpopulation is necessary to stimulate industry and discourage indolence.



1817



The Royal Mint replaces the gold guinea with a new gold sovereign coin.



1817



Walter Scott’s Rob Roy is published.



1817



Waterloo Bridges, built by Scottish civil engineer John Rennie, opens.



1817



Antonin Carême creates a spectacular feast for the Prince Regent at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. The death of Princess Charlotte from complications of childbirth changes obstetrical practices. Elgin Marbles shown at the British Museum. Captain Bligh dies.



1817



Bolivar and a small force return to Venezuela and establish a base inland in the rain forest along the Orinoco River.



1817



In Britain, real wages have been declining at least since the late 1790s, as Britain has been burdened by war against France. From this year on and into the next century real wages in Britain will be rising. 



1817



The British sign a Maratha kingdom, Nagpur, into its system of alliances. Those opposed sack and burn the British residence at Poona (Pune). 27,000 attack a British force of 2,800 a few miles north of Poona — the beginning of the Third Anglo-Maratha War.



1817



Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), Irish-born hydrogapher, authored a best-selling travel book about the southern coast of Turkey.



1817



John Bradbury, Scottish naturalist, authored “Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810 and 1811.”



1817



William Hazlitt, the finest of the romantic critics, published “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays.”



1817



Dr. William Kitchiner authored his cookbook “Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook’s Oracle.” It included 11 ketchup recipes, including 2 each for mushroom, walnut and tomato ketchups, and one each for cucumber, oyster and cockles and mussels ketchups.



1817



Thomas Love Peacock, a friend and neighbor of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, authored his comic novel “Melincourt.” A character in the novel was based on Shelley.



1817



David Ricardo published “Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.” In this he argued for the labor theory of value. Ricardo here explained why the best farmland often makes money for the landlord, not the farmer.



1817



The multi-volume “Flora Brasiliensis” was commissioned by Maximilian I of Austria. The definitive volume on Brazilian botany was completed in 1906.



1817



 Work began on the Erie Canal, more properly named the New York State Barge Canal. The canal connected Lake Erie with the Hudson and opened on October 26, 1825. The canal was proposed by NY Gov. Dewitt Clinton and detractors called it “Clinton’s Folly.” Workers were paid a quart of whiskey a day plus $1. [see 1826]



1817



The Univ. of Michigan was founded by a Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, and a Catholic priest, Gabriel Richard and Judge Gus Woodward. The Univ. of Michigan was established by a Michigan Public Act under a Board of Regents.



1817



Tuscumbia, Alabama was founded by the US government.



1817



The New York Stock and Exchange Board (NYSE) was formalized and established its first quarters in a rented room at 40 Wall St.



1817



Frederick Eberle was tried for illegally conspiring to prevent the introduction of the English language into German Lutheran church services in Philadelphia.



1817



Britain banned private coins. They had been issued to address a major shortage of government coinage. From 1787 to 1797 and again from 1811 to 1818, the greater part of Great Britain’s stock of coins came not from the Royal Mint in London but from a score of private mints in Birmingham.



1817



The Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City was completed.



1817



In Egypt Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the tomb of Seti I.



1817



Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun of Germany invented the draisienne, the first 2-wheeled, rider-propelled machine and exhibited it in Paris in 1818. The vehicle came to be known as the “velocipede,” a 2-wheeled running machine without pedals.



1817



Pedro Moreno and Victor Rosales died fighting Spain in western Mexico. Their bodies were among 14 later placed in urns as hero’s of Mexico’s 1810-1821 independence movement. In 1925 urns holding the remains were sealed in crypts at the Independence monument. Others in the urns included Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende.



1817



The Dutch and French agreed on a final pact to divide the control of St. Martin Island. The southern Dutch half comprises the Eilandgebied Sint Maarten (Island Territory of St. Maarten) and is part of the Netherlands Antilles. The northern French half comprises the Collectivité de Saint-Martin (Collectivity of St. Martin) and is an overseas collectivity of France.



1817



Spain formally accepted the principle to abolish slavery.



1817-1819



Titian Ramsey Peale was curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; and again from 1825-1931. He helped amass one of the largest and earliest systematic collections of insects in the US. He invented special book boxes for mounting moths and butterflies between sheets of glass.



1817-1924



Pierre Joseph Redoute printed “Les Roses.”



1817-1825



James Monroe became the 5th President of the US. [see 1758-1831, Monroe]