Russian Empire 1817 82 Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. 1817 New York Stock ExchangeNew reforms
82 Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. 1817 In 1817, the stockbrokers of New York, operating under the Buttonwood Agreement, instituted new reforms and reorganized. After sending a delegation to Philadelphia to observe the organization of their board of brokers, restrictions on manipulative trading were adopted, as well as formal organs of governance. After re-forming as the New York Stock and Exchange Board, the broker organization began renting out space exclusively for securities trading, which previously had been taking place at the Tontine Coffee House. Several locations were used between 1817 and 1865 when the present location was adopted.
Germany 1817 Unification of GermanyThe Wartburg rally
Germany 1817 The first Wartburg Festival was a convention of about 500 Protestant German students, held on 18 October 1817 at the Wartburg castle near Eisenach in Thuringia. The former refuge of reformator Martin Luther was considered a national symbol and the assembly a protest against reactionary politics and Kleinstaaterei.
Angostura, Venezuela Jul, 1817 Simón BolívarBolívar captured Angostura after defeating the counter-attack of Miguel de la Torre
Angostura, Venezuela Jul, 1817 In July 1817, on a second expedition, Bolívar captured Angostura after defeating the counter-attack of Miguel de la Torre. However, Venezuela remained a captaincy of Spain after the victory in 1818 by Pablo Morillo in the Second Battle of La Puerta.
Germany 1817 BicycleThe first Bicycle
Germany 1817 In 1817, the German Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine"), The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle, which was called Draisine, in English, or draisienne, in French, by the press. In the same year, Drais introduced his machine to the public in Mannheim.
