1817

Events

   * March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the
     United States of America
   * July 4 - At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
   * December 10 - Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U.S. state.
   * Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum
   * Emperor Ninko ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

   * February 19 - King William III of the Netherlands
   * February 22 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, mathematician
   * March 22 - Braxton Brag, Confederate general (+ 1876)
   * July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, US philosopher
   * July 24 - Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg
   * November 30- Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar and historian

Deaths

   * January 12 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit
   * July 28 - Jane Austen (b. 1775), British novelist

Heads of states

   * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
   * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
   * Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)

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