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November 5 – Third Anglo-Maratha War breaks out with the Battle of Khadki. November 6 – The death in childbirth of the heir presumptive, Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince Regent, throws the succession to the British throne into doubt. November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida.
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April 15 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut. April 29 – The Rush–Bagot Treaty, between the U.S. and the United Kingdom, is signed. May – The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founds the General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.
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January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina to free Chile and then Peru.February 12 – The Argentine/Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Chacabuco.March 4 – James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.April – Earthquake in Palermo, ItalyApril 3 – Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England.April 15 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.April 17 – Martin Van Buren passes Erie Canalbill.July 4 – At Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canalbegins.August 22 – City of Araraquara, Brazilfounded.August 23 – Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helikeresults in 65 deaths.October – President and Mrs. James Monroe move back into the White House, after restoration repairs.October 31 – Emperor Ninkō accedes to the throne of Japan.November 20 – The first Seminole War begins in Florida.November 22 – Fredric Cailliaud discovers the old Roman emerald mines at Sikait, Egypt.Elgin Marbles are displayed in the British Museum.John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coaltar.Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.A Typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.January 6 – J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (d. 1882)January 8 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (d. 1893)February 19 – King William III of the Netherlands (d. 1890)February 22 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)July 12 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (d. 1862)July 24 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1905)August 3 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)August 14 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)Waterloo Bridge opens June 1817. January – The Black Dwarf is first published in London as a satirical radical unstamped newspaper by journalist Thomas Jonathan Wooler. 20 January – HMS Jasper is wrecked in the vicinity of Plymouth Sound by hurricane-force winds with the loss of 65 lives. [1]
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February 18 – Mr. McCord reads a petition for the deepening of the St. Lawrence. February 28 – One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.
