October 1817 in History

Events in History

Oct 9 University of Gent officially opens
Oct 20 1st Mississippi "Showboat" leaves Nashville on maiden voyage

Birthdays in History

Oct 7 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
Oct 10 C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist (Buys Ballot's law), born in Kloetinge, Netherlands (d. 1890)
Oct 17 Samuel Ringgold Ward, American Black abolitionist, minister and orator (Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro), born in Maryland (d. 1866)
Oct 17 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of the Pakistan movement, born in Delhi, Mughal Empire (d. 1898)
Oct 23 Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
Oct 24 Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, French chemist and inventor of margarine, born in Draguignan, France (d. 1880)
Oct 30 Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry), born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Germany (d. 1892)

Deaths in History

Oct 2 Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
Oct 15 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Swiss traveller and orientalist, 1st European to discover Petra and Abu Simbel, dies at 32

Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817)

Oct 15 Polish-Lithuanian military leader and statesman considered a national hero, dies at 71 after falling from a horse, developing a fever and suffering a stroke