Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years: 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827
Events:
- October 12 - Pedro I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire
- March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory[?].
- May 24 - Battle of Pichincha[?]: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
- Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
- Galileo Galilei's Dialogue taken off of the Index librorum prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books.
- Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis setting off a major increase in fur trade[?].
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births:
- January 4 - Georg Büchmann[?], philologist (+ 1884)
- January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
- January 28 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
- February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (+ 1911)
- April 3 - Edward Everett Hale[?], writer, (+ 1909)
- May 26 - Edmond de Goncourt, writer (+ 1896)
- Gregor Mendel, geneticist
- Charles A. Alexander[?], Victorian architect
Deaths:
- July 7 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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