1817 Fact Sheet

Database: Great Inventions by Year and Country

Record Name Year Country Region Source Inventor Name
Sign Language 1817 United States North America Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 Thomas H. Gallaudet

Database: Year and Discoverer of Chemical Elements

Record Name Element Year Discovered Discovered By Source
Cadmium Cadmium 1817 Friedrich Strohmeyer Jefferson Lab
Lithium Lithium 1817 Johann August Arfvedson Jefferson Lab
Selenium Selenium 1817 Jons Jacob Berzelius Jefferson Lab

Database: Rulers of Japan

Record Name Country Region Ruler Name End Start
Japanese Ruler Kokaku Japan Asia Kokaku 1817 1779
Japanese Ruler Ninko Japan Asia Ninko 1846 1817

Database: Periodic Table of the Elements

Record Name Symbol Group Number Melting Point Boiling Point Density Year Discovered Atomic Weight % of Earth's Crust
Lithium Li 1 3 180 1347 0.53 1817 6.941
Selenium Se 16 34 217 685 4.79 1817 78.96
Cadmium Cd 12 48 321 765 8.65 1817 112.411

Database: US Presidents

Record Name Birth State Religion Political Party Died Country Term Start Term Finish Birthdate Date of Death Inauguration Age Age at Death Number
Madison VIRGINIA Episcopalian Democratic Republican Died after Office United States 1809 1817 3/16/1751 6/28/1836 57 85 4
Monroe VIRGINIA Episcopalian Democratic Republican Died after Office United States 1817 1825 4/28/1758 7/4/1831 58 73 5

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