page_title: 1817
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1817 / Births / January–June
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Portret van Willem III (1817-90), koning der Nederlanden. Staande, ten voeten uit, in uniform met hermelijnen mantel. De rechterhand in de zij, de linkerhand op het zwaard. Links op een kussen op een tafel liggen kroon en scepter. Er bestaat een tweede schilderij van de hand van Pieneman, dat sprekend lijkt op dit exemplaar. English: Portrait of William III (1817-90), King of the Netherlands. Standing, full-length cloak, in uniform with ermine. The right hand on his side, the left hand on the sword. To the left lying on a cushion on a table - crown and scepter. There is a second painting by Pieneman that looks very similar to this one.
context_page_description: 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1817th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, 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.
context_section_description: January 8 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (d. 1893)
  January 28 – Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea, Spanish noble and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1874)
  February 17 – Édouard Thilges, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
  February 18 – Lewis Armistead, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
  February 19 – King William III of the Netherlands (d. 1890)
  February 22 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
  February 24 – Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, French general (d. 1882)
  March 6 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of France, mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (d. 1907)
  March 22 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
  April 1 – Nissen Shonin, Japanese Buddhist priest Honmon Butsuryū-shū, Kyoto city (d. 1890)
  April 15 – Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford (d. 1893)
  April 24 – Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Swiss chemist (d. 1894)
  May 15 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
  May 19 – Theodor August Heintzman, Canadian piano manufacturer (d. 1899)
  June 30 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (d. 1911)
caption: William III of the Netherlands
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