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1817 (MDCCCXVII) was the 817th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1817, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Art and culture
- Morphine first distributed by Friedrich Sertürner
- Kaleidoscope coined
Literature
- The term 'suspension of disbelief' is coined by the romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria
Fiction
- The Night Pieces, a collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales with a fantastic, gloomy and macabre mood.
- "The Sandman", a short story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann.
- Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
Non-fiction
- First volume of Rome, Naples et Florence published by Stendhal, with description of Stendhal syndrome.
Visual art
- Elgin Marbles are displayed in the British Museum.
Music
Architecture
Births
- José Zorilla (1817-1893)
- George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)
Deaths
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