1797

Years: 1794 1795 1796 - 1797 - 1798 1799 1800
Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1797 in art 1797 in literature 1797 in music 1797 in science List of state leaders in 1797 List of religious leaders in 1797

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers
February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
February 26 - The Bank of England (national bank of Britain) issues the first one pound note (discontinued March 11 1988)
March 4 - John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice ending the 1070 years of independence of city.
July 24 - Horatio Nelson wounded at Tenerife - injury causes a loss of one arm
September 7 ÃÂ Treaty of Campo Formio ends the War of the First Coalition
October 21 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli (in 1805 the Tripoli peace treaty was signed on Constitution's deck).
Large-scale mutinies in Royal Navy

Ongoing events

Births

January 31 - Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist, composer
February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway - German-American piano manufacturer
March 22 - Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (+ 1888)
March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, author
May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (+ 1854)
July 20 - Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist
August 30 - Mary Wollstonecroft (later Mary Shelley}
November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist.
December 13 - Heinrich Heine, poet

Deaths

February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer.
March 26 - James Hutton (geologist)
July 9 - Edmund Burke, philosopher
August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander
November - Frederick William II of Prussia