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-[[Image:Eruption of Vesuvius (Turner).jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Eruption of Vesuvius]]'' ([[1817]]) by [[William Turner]], an eruption of [[Vesuvius]]]]+{| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"
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 +"I concealed nothing, and especially not that I had been drinking a lot of [[Punch (drink)|punch]] and reading Schiller's ''[[The Ghost-Seer|GhostSeer]]''" --"[[The Entail]]" (1817), E. T. A. Hoffmann
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 +[[Image:Eruption of Vesuvius (Turner).jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Vesuvius in Eruption (William Turner)|Vesuvius in Eruption]]'' (1817-20) by William Turner]]
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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.+'''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.
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
*[[Morphine]] first distributed by [[Friedrich Sertürner]] *[[Morphine]] first distributed by [[Friedrich Sertürner]]
 +*[[Kaleidoscope]] coined
===Literature=== ===Literature===
-*The term '[[suspension of disbelief]]' is coined by the romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge+*The term '[[suspension of disbelief]]' is coined by the romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his ''[[Biographia Literaria]]''
====Fiction==== ====Fiction====
*''[[The Night Pieces]]'', a collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales with a fantastic, gloomy and macabre mood. *''[[The Night Pieces]]'', a collection of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tales with a fantastic, gloomy and macabre mood.
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*First volume of ''[[Rome, Naples et Florence]]'' published by Stendhal, with description of [[Stendhal syndrome]]. *First volume of ''[[Rome, Naples et Florence]]'' published by Stendhal, with description of [[Stendhal syndrome]].
===Visual art=== ===Visual art===
 +* [[Elgin Marbles]] are displayed in the [[British Museum]].
===Music=== ===Music===
 +*[[Death and the Maiden (song)|Death and the Maiden]], an 1817 song composed by Franz Schubert
===Architecture=== ===Architecture===
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*[[José Zorilla]] (1817-1893) *[[José Zorilla]] (1817-1893)
*[[George Frederic Watts]] (1817-1904) *[[George Frederic Watts]] (1817-1904)
- +*[[Richard Dadd]] (1817 – 1886), English painter
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
 +*[[Jane Austen]], English writer
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"I concealed nothing, and especially not that I had been drinking a lot of punch and reading Schiller's GhostSeer" --"The Entail" (1817), E. T. A. Hoffmann

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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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  • 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

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