1797
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| Gregorian calendar | 1797 MDCCXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2550 |
| Armenian calendar | 1246 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԶ |
| Chinese calendar | 4493 – 4494 丙辰 – 丁巳 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1789 – 1790 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5557 – 5558 |
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| - Vikram Samvat | 1852 – 1853 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1719 – 1720 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4898 – 4899 |
| Iranian calendar | 1175 – 1176 |
| Islamic calendar | 1212 – 1213 |
1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events
- XYZ Affair with French
- January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers. see also 1796.
- January 7 - The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
- January 15 - London haberdasher John Hetherington wears the first top hat in public and attracts a large crowd of onlookers. He is later fined £50 for causing public nuisance.
- 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 commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.
- February 22 - The Last invasion of Britain begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.
- February 25 - Tate surrenders to the British at Fishguard.
- February 26 - The Bank of England (national bank of Britain) issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes
(discontinued March 11, 1988).
- March 4 - John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
- April 16 - Spithead and Nore mutinies.
- April 17 - Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfuly invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest attack to Spanish territories in America.
- May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the 1070 years of independence of the city. The last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, steps down.
- July 24 - Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz, causing a loss of one arm.
- October 17 - 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.
- December 17 - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon.
- Joseph Haydn composes the music to "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," the tune of which also became the music to the German national anthem, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles."
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
- January 10 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (died 1848)
- January 31 - Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1828)
- February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (died 1817)
- March 22 - Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (died 1888)
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (died 1863)
- May 6 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (died 1882)
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (died 1854)
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (died 1873)
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (died 1851)
- October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1870)
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist (died 1875)
- November 29 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (died 1848)
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (died 1856)
- December 17 - Joseph Henry, American scientist (died 1878)
- Uknown
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese woodblock print or ukiyo-e (died 1861)
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (born 1715)
- February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (born 1713)
- February 22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (born 1720)
- March 2 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (born 1717)
- March 26 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (born 1726)
- March 31 - Olaudah Equiano Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist (born 1745)
- May 17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (born 1719)
- May 25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (born 1719)
- May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1760)
- May 27 - Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1769)
- July 9 - Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher (born 1723)
- July 11 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (born 1740)
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (born 1717)
- August 22 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (born 1724)
- October 9 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (born 1720)
- November 14 - Ivan Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (born 1727)
- November 16 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (born 1744)
- November 18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719)
- November 29 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (born 1723)
- December 11 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (born 1722)
[edit] Fiction
The events of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night happen in this year.
