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List of 1817 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1817

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Date Event
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 are captured during the action of Picheuta.
February 8, 1817 Las Heras completes his crossing of 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 at the Battle of Chacabuco.
April 15, 1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), 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, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
June 5, 1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
June 12, 1817 The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
July 4, 1817 In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
July 19, 1817 Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
October 16, 1817 Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
October 30, 1817 Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
November 3, 1817 The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
December 10, 1817 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.