Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

Two collections of Kotzebue's dramas were published during his lifetime: Schauspiele ( 5 vols., 1797 ); Neue Schauspiele ( 23 vols., 1798 – 1820 ).

* Euripides ( 1797 – 1802 );

* Lady Louisa Elizabeth Grey ( 7 April 1797 – 26 November 1841 ); married John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham

* Maria Anna Sophie Sabina Angela Franziska Xaveria ( b. Dresden, 29 August 1728-d. Munich, 17 February 1797 ); married on 9 August 1747 to Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.

Etheldred Benett ( 22 July 1776 – 11 January 1845 ) was an early English geologist, the eldest daughter of Thomas Benett ( 1729 – 1797 ) of Wiltshire and Catherine née Darell ( d. 1790 ); her brother, John ( 1773 – 1852 ), was a member of Parliament for Wiltshire and later South Wiltshire from 1819 to 1852.

In 1912 he was convicted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 of publishing an article in The Syndicalist, as an ' Open Letter to British Soldiers ', urging them to refuse to shoot at strikers ( later reprinted as a leaflet, Don't Shoot ); his prison sentence was quashed after public pressure.

* Charlotte Wedgwood ( 1797 – 1862 ); married Charles Langton ( 1801 – 1886 ) in 1832.

** Istria ( although much of Istria was Venetian territory until 1797 );

* The Duchy of Milan ( 1713 – 1797 );

* Venetia ( 1797 – 1805 );

* Kingdom of Dalmatia ( 1797 – 1805, 1814 – 1918 );

Three editions of his Welsh catechism were published for the use of his schools ( 1789, 1791 and 1794 ); an English catechism for the use of schools in Lady Huntingdon's Connection was drawn up by him in 1797 ; his shorter catechism in Welsh appeared in 1799, and passed through several editions, in Welsh and English, before 1807, when his Instructor ( still the Connectional catechism ) appeared.

In the same period there were Jacob Israel of Kremnitz, author of " Shebet ' mi-Yisrael ," a commentary on the Psalms ( Zolkiev, 1772 ); Judah Löw Edel of Slonim, author of " Afiqe Yehudah ," sermons ( Lemberg, 1802 ); Chayyim Abraham Katz of Moghilef, author of " Milchama ve-Shalom " ( Shklov, 1797 ); Ezekiel Feiwel of Deretschin, author of " Toledot Adam " ( Dyhernfurth, 1809 ) and maggid in Wilna ( Levinsohn, " Bet Yehudah ," ii.

The well-known Egyptian cult of the dead inspired the Egyptian Revival themes first employed in Highgate Cemetery, near London, which was opened in 1839 by a company founded by the designer-entrepreneur Stephen Geary ( 1797 – 1854 ); its architectural features, which included a ' Gothic Catacomb ' as well as an ' Egyptian Avenue ', were brought to public attention once more by James Stevens Curl.

James Murray Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); nephew of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ) and John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ); son of John Mason ( 1766 – 1849 ) and Anna Maria Murray Mason ( 1776 – 1857 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ), George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ), and Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ); and first cousin thrice removed of Charles O ' Conor Goolrick.

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

** Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist ( b. 1797 )

* Sir Henry George Ward ( 1797 – 1860 ) 1849 – 1855

The Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 14 February 1797 ) was one of the opening battles of The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1796 – 1808 ) where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.

* Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Bt ( geologist ) ( 1797 – 1875 )

Settlers failed to meet the terms of the original grant, so the plantation was transferred in 1770 to grantees including Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, after which it was named Cockburn Town, incorporated in 1797.

* Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet ( 1797 – 1878 ), politician

" His nephew, Nathan Garrick, married Martha Leigh, daughter of Sir Egerton Leigh, Bart and sister of Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh, author of Munster Abbey ; a Romance: Interspersed with Reflections on Virtue and Morality ( Edinburgh 1797 ).

* Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki ( 1797 – 1873 ), Polish explorer ( exhumed 1997 and returned to Krypta Zasłużonych ( the crypt of meritorious citizens ) in Poznań, Poland )

Every year he exhibited work of one class or another: occasionally a public monument in the round, like those of Pasquale Paoli ( 1798 ) or Captain Montague ( 1802 ) for Westminster Abbey, of Sir William Jones for University College, Oxford ( 1797 – 1801 ), of Nelson or Howe for St Paul's Cathedral ; more often memorials for churches, with symbolic Acts of Mercy or illustrations of Scripture texts, both commonly in low relief ( 1801 ), Miss Cromwell, Chichester ( 1800 ), Mrs Knight, Milton, Cambridge ( 1802 ), and many more ; and these pious labours he would vary from time to time with a classical piece like those of his earliest predilection.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto PC ( 23 April 1751 – 21 June 1814 ), known as Sir Gilbert Elliott between 1777 and 1797 and as The Lord Minto between 1797 and 1813, was a Scottish politician diplomat.

In 1797 under the terms of the will of her uncle Thomas Duckett, Sir George assumed, by Royal Licence, the name and arms of that family, becoming Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet.

* Admiral Sir Adam Duncan, victor of the Battle of Camperdown, was created Viscount Duncan of Camperdown in 1797.

* Admiral Sir John Jervis, victor of the Battle of Cape St Vincent, was created Earl of St Vincent in 1797, and was further created Viscount St Vincent in 1801.

His son Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland ( 1766 – 1809 ) was a pioneering writer and the author of The State of the Poor, published in 3 volumes in 1797.

He assumed the surname of Savile by Act of Parliament in 1797 in accordance with the will of his uncle Sir George Savile and inherited the Savile estates on his brother's death.

Sir Godfrey Webster having obtained a divorce, the couple were able to marry on 6 July 1797.

* Sir Jacob Astley, 6th Baronet ( 1797 – 1859 ) ( succeeded as Baron Hastings in 1841 )

The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as an anthem for the birthday of the Austrian Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

* 1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general ( d. 1853 )

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

* Joseph Guislain, physician ( 1797 – 1860 )

* 1797 – John Joseph Hughes, Irish-American archbishop ( d. 1864 )

* 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer ( b. 1797 )

* 1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer ( d. 1882 )

* 1797 – Samuel Joseph May, American activist ( d. 1871 )

Another early venture was by Joseph Louis Lagrange in his Theory of Analytic Functions ( 1797, 1813 ).

" In the spring of 1797, he held four confidential talks with the French consul Joseph Letombe.

* July 4 – Joseph Brackett, American Shaker religious leader and composer ( b. 1797 )

* May 13 – Joseph Henry, American scientist ( b. 1797 )

* September 3 – Joseph Wright, British painter ( d. 1797 )

In 1836 the German botanist Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini ( 1797 – 1848 ) identified a second species while working on specimens collected on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and named it Swietenia humilis.

Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on 19 February 1797 ; but on 28 December of that year, in a riot blamed by papal forces on some Italian and French revolutionists, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion.

After the Expedition, Joseph Billings remained with the Imperial Russian Navy, before retiring in 1797 and settling in Moscow.

It is named after Joseph Henry ( 1797 – 1878 ), the American scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction independently of and at about the same time as Michael Faraday ( 1791 – 1867 ) in England.

It was named for Joseph McDowell, a Revolutionary War leader and hero of the Battle of King's Mountain, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799.

It was named for Joseph Caldwell, presiding professor ( 1796 – 1797, 1799 – 1804 ) and the first president ( 1804 – 1812, 1816 – 1835 ) of the University of North Carolina.

Robert Dickey conveyed Hermitage to Joseph Baldridge by deed dated February 18, 1797.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through the offices of Governor Thomas Mifflin, issued a patent to Joseph Buldridge for the tract of land known as Hermitage on April 1, 1797.

Joseph Baldridge, another settler that built a mill in the area, was conveyed a deed for a tract of land known as " Hermitage " in 1797.

* Joseph Blake, 3rd Baron Wallscourt ( 1797 – 1849 ), Irish nobleman and socialist

Joseph Fry & Co., the typefoundry, was continued by Joseph Fry's elder son, Edmund Fry ( 1754 – 1835 ) and renamed Edmund Fry & Co. Edmund Fry had two sons who survived to adulthood: Windover Fry ( 1797 – 1835 ) and Arthur Fry ( 1809 – 1878 ).