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1817
 
   
An informal financial market on Wall Street is transformed into the New York Stock and Exchange Board      
1817
 
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O'Higgins is elected the 'supreme director' of independent Chile after San Martín declines the post       
1817
 
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British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta      
1817
 
    
German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer observes and draws dark lines in the solar spectrum       
1817
 
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Bolívar returns to Venezuela and builds up an army of liberation in a remote region up the Orinoco      
1817
 
    
Jane Austen dies in Winchester, and is buried in the cathedral       
1817
 
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Bernardo O'Higgins introduces liberal reforms in Chile, reducing the privileges of aristocracy and church      
1817
 
   
On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation      
1817
 
    
Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians       
1817
 
     
John Rennie's new bridge commemorates a recent victory, over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815        
Waterloo Bridge, 1817
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