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
Events
- January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers
- 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
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
- 1797 in literature:
- Harriet and Sophia Lee write The Canterbury Tales from 1797 to 1805.
- 1797 in music
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