1797
1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
EventsJanuary 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers.January 7 - The parliament of the Repubblica Cisalpina adopts the Italian gree-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.February 18 - Spanish Governor Chacon peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad and Tobago to a British naval force.February 22 - Attempted invasion of Britain in Fishguard by French forces 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 and composer
- February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer
- March 22 - Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (d. 1888)
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (d. 1854)
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecroft (later Mary Shelley), English writer
- October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist.
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
Deaths - February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
- March 2 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
- March 26 - James Hutton Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
- July 9 - Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher (b. 1723)
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
- November 16 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
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