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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