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

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 – 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

• French Revolution (1789-1799)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-First Coalition

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