1797

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 - 1797 - 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802

• February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution[?].
• February 26 - The Bank of England issues the first one pound note.
• 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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1797 in literature:
  • Harriet and Sophia Lee write The Canterbury Tales from 1797 to 1805.

Births

• January 31 - Franz Shubert,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)
• August 30 - Mary Wolstonecroft (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