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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).

Events

• January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers.
• 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 James 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.
• February 22 - The last invasion of the British mainland, near Fishguard in Wales, by French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate
• February 25 - Tate surrenders to the British at Fishguard.
• 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.
• April 16 - Spithead and Nore mutinies
• May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the 1070 years of independence of the city. Last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, steps down.
• July 24 - Horatio Nelson is wounded at Tenerife, causing 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.
• December 17 - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon for French

• 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."

Ongoing events

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

Births

• Octorber 4 - Gary L. Vess English Comic Book Writer (d. ????)
• January 10 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
• January 31 - Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)
• February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (d. 1817)
• March 22 - Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
• March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
• May 6 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
• May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (d. 1854)
• July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
• August 30 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
• October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
• November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
• November 29 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
• December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
• December 17 - Joseph Henry, American scientist (d. 1878)

Deaths

• January 13 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, queen of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
• February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
• February 22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
• March 2 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
• March 26 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
• March 31 - Olaudah Equiano Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist b. 1745)
• May 17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
• May 25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
• May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760)
• May 27 - Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1769)
• July 9 - Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher (b. 1723)
• August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
• August 22 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
• October 9 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
• November 16 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
• November 18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
• November 29 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
• December 11 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722

Fiction

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