1797

Events

   * 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.
   * 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).

Ongoing events

   * French Revolution (1789-1799)

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

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