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1817 in the United States

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1817
in
the United States

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1817 in the United States.

Incumbents

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James Madison (DR-Virginia) (until March 4)
James Monroe (DR-Virginia) (starting March 4)
vacant (until March 4)
Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York) (starting March 4)

Events

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March 4: James Monroe becomes the fifth U.S. president
Daniel D. Tompkins becomes the sixth U.S. vice president

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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The Gloucester sea serpent, a "large marine animal, supposed to be a serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August 1817"[2]

October–December

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Undated

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Ongoing

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "An 1820 Claim to Congress: Alabama Territory : 1817", The Intruders, TNGenNet Inc., 2001, quick webpage: TN-537[permanent dead link].
  2. ^ Report of a committee of the Linnaean Society of New England, relative to a large marine animal, supposed to be a serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August 1817. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817
  3. ^ George Dangerfield. The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815–1828 (1965).
  4. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937b). "Introduction". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.). American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824-1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. 22. OCLC 464953146.

Further reading

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  • James C. Jewett. The United States Congress of 1817 and Some of its Celebrities. The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (October, 1908), pp. 139–144
  • Marine Hospitals of New England in 1817. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 50, (October, 1916 – June, 1917),
  • John E. Iglehart. The Coming of the English to Indiana in 1817 and Their Hoosier Neighbors. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1919), pp. 89–178
  • Lucius C. Embree. Morris Birkbeck's Estimate of the People of Princeton in 1817. Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1925), pp. 289–299
  • Watt Stewart. The South American Commission, 1817–1818. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (February, 1929), pp. 31–59
  • John Perry Pritchett. Selkirk's Return from Assiniboia Via The United States to the Canadas, 1817–1818. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (December, 1945), pp. 399–418
  • Lucius Gaston Moffatt, Joseph Médard Carrière. A Frenchman Visits Charleston, 1817. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 49, No. 3 (July, 1948), pp. 131–154
  • Sidney Walter Martin. Ebenezer Kellogg's Visit to Charleston, 1817. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 49, No. 1 (January, 1948), pp. 1–14
  • F. Gerald Ham. The Prophet and the Mummyjums: Isaac Bullard and the Vermont Pilgrims of 1817. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Summer, 1973), pp. 290–299
  • Patricia Tyson Stroud. The Founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1812 and Its Journal in 1817. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 147, (1997), pp. 227–236