Editing 1817 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; "[[Princess Caraboo]]" appears in [[Almondsbury]] in [[Gloucestershire]] in England, and convinces the local residents that she had come to their town from a far-off island kingdom of "Javasu" in the [[Indian Ocean]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=41062|title=Baker [née Willcocks], Mary [alias Princess Caraboo]}}</ref> A Portuguese sailor named Manuel Enes soon arrives and says that he speaks her mysterious language, and translates her story of an escape from pirates. After publicity, Princess Caraboo is discovered to be a servant girl from the village of [[Witheridge]] in [[Devon]].
* [[April 15]]
**The [[American School for the Deaf]] opens in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].
**An earthquake strikes [[Palermo]] in the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]].<ref>"Prof. Ferrara on the Earthquakes in Sicily in 1823", ''The Edinburgh Journal of Science'' p366</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; The [[Rush–Bagot Treaty]] is signed between the United States and the British Empire, limiting the number of warships on the [[Great Lakes]] between the U.S. and Canada in the aftermath of settling the [[War of 1812]].<ref>Christopher Mark Radojewski, "The Rush–Bagot Agreement: Canada–US Relations in Transition." ''American Review of Canadian Studies'' 47.3 (2017): 280–299.</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; The [[General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America|General Convention]] of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] founds the [[General Theological Seminary]], while meeting in New York City.<ref>
James Grant Wilson, ''The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892'', Volume IV (New York History Company, 1893) p596</ref>
* [[June 12]]
**German inventor [[Karl Drais]] drives his [[dandy horse]] ("Draisine" or ''Laufmaschine''), the earliest form of [[bicycle]], in [[Mannheim]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/draisienne-1817-2017-200-years-cycling-innovation-design | title=200 years since the father of the bicycle Baron Karl von Drais invented the 'running machine' {{pipe}} Cycling UK | last=Hanlon | first=Sheila | access-date=3 February 2020 | archive-date=5 July 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705110900/https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle/draisienne-1817-2017-200-years-cycling-innovation-design | url-status=live }}</ref>
** Tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the [[Skibbereen]] Abstinence Society in [[Ireland]], considered the first organisation devoted to [[teetotalism]] in Europe.<ref>Winskill P. T., ''The Temperance Movement: And Its Workers'' (Blackie & Son, Ltd. 1891) p80</ref> 
* [[June 22]] &ndash; King [[Ferdinand VII of Spain]], by royal decree, makes the production and sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in [[Cuba]], thus sparking the birth of the Cuban cigar industry.<ref>''Cuba'' (International Bureau of the American Republics, 1905) p82</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; A large riot breaks out in [[Copenhagen]] Prison, and the army is sent to quell it.