1817
From dKosopedia
This Year
- William Wirt becmes United States Attorney General under President James Monroe
- 15th United States Congress begins.
- Coffee (first domesticated in Ethiopia) is first planted in Hawaii.
- Marx Marx's lawyer father converts from Judaism to the Evangelical Established Church.
Timeline
- March 4: Daniel D. Tompkins sworn in as Vice President.
- December: After British parliament passes a new set of "Gagging Acts" and pamphleteer William Hone is put on trial three times in three days. A conservative Loyalist mob attacks the home of Thomas Hardy for to nights running. Hardy's wife, who is six months pregnant, is badly bruised attempting to flee the mob on the night of the first attack.