This Year in History:
1817
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
In the early hours of February 12, 1817, Argentine revolutionary José de San Martín leads his troops down the slopes of the Andes Mountains towards the Spanish forces defending Chile.…
The legendary Texas Ranger and frontiersman “Big Foot” Wallace is born in Lexington, Virginia. In 1836, 19‑year‑old William Alexander Anderson Wallace received news that one of his brothers had been…
On July 4, 1817, workers break ground on the Erie Canal at Rome, New York. The canal, completed in 1825, links the eastern seaboard with the Midwest and transforms New…
