* 1760 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1865 – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano ( b. 1797 )

* 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander ( b. 1717 )

* 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony ( d. 1797 )

* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )

* 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.

* 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman ( d. 1877 )

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

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

Numerous works were produced in the years 1795 – 1797, of which several were repetitions of previous productions.

* 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician ( d. 1797 )

* 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer ( d. 1797 )

On 15 September / 17 September 1815 in Weilburg, Charles married Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1797 – 1829 ).

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

#** Victoire Gertrude Bonaparte ( 1797 – 1797 )

# Maria Paola or Marie Pauline Bonaparte ( 1780 – 1825 ), married in 1797 to French general Charles Leclerc and later married Prince Camillo Borghese.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 1797 )

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

* 1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder ( d. 1797 )

* 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist ( d. 1797 )

* 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.

This word gave rise to the French mètre which in 1797 was introduced into the English language.

* 1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary ( b. 1760 )

* 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian ( b. 1797 )

* 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary figure ( d. 1797 )

* 1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

Secretary of State Timothy Pickering reported to Congress on June 21, 1797, that the French had seized 316 American merchant ships in the previous eleven months.

San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.

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

Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists.

* September 17 – Alfred de Vigny, French author ( b. 1797 )

* February 14 – The Battle of Cape St. Vincent ( 1797 ), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.

Spain, Naples, Great Britain, and the Netherlands joined Austria and Prussia in The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.

* January 11 – François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician ( d. 1797 )

In 1797, it was anything but peaceful, as Samuel Mason, who was initially a Revolutionary War Patriot captain in the Ohio County, Virginia militia and a former associate judge and squire in Kentucky, led a gang of highway robbers and river pirates on the Ohio River.

François-Noël Babeuf ( 23 November 1760 – 27 May 1797 ), known as Gracchus Babeuf ( in tribute to the Roman tribunes of the people and reformers, the Gracchi brothers, and used alongside his self-designation as Tribune ), was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period.

When the French Revolutionary Army invaded Italy in 1797, Cardinal Chiaramonti cautioned temperance and submission to the Cisalpine Republic they established.

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.

East St. Louis was founded in 1797 by Captain James Piggott, a Revolutionary War veteran.

Liberty was settled about 1797 by Adam Dale, an American Revolutionary War veteran from Maryland who built a mill on Smith Fork Creek.

Established in 1797 by early settler and Revolutionary War veteran John Cooke, it was county seat of Wyoming County until 1907, Oceana, when Pineville was designated after a series of disputed elections.

The War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ) was the first major effort of multiple European monarchies to contain Revolutionary France.

In April 1797 the French, under General Louis Lazare Hoche, defeated the Austrians near Neuwied, this being their first decisive success in the French Revolutionary Wars.

At the start of the Revolution of 1789, however, only the foundations and the grand portico had been finished ; the choir of the former church was demolished in 1797, but work was discontinued while debate simmered as to what purpose the eventual building might serve in Revolutionary France: a library, a public ballroom, and a marketplace were all suggested.

When it was introduced in 1797, the financial situation at the Bank of England was very precarious -- gold was in short supply thanks to the effects of the French Revolutionary wars, and banknotes were given legal tender status in any amount.

The French Revolutionary Wars are usually divided between those of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ) and the Second Coalition ( 1798 – 1801 ).

Output became a flood during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars ( 1797 – 1815 ), seeing numerous patriotic war songs, like ‘ Heart of Oak ’ and the emergence of a stereotype of the English seaman as ‘ Jolly Jack Tar ’, who appeared in many ballads and on stage.

The plot follows Billy Budd, a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797, when the Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by the Revolutionary French Republic's military ambitions.

In 1797 they were deported by the English for their role in supporting France during the French Revolutionary Wars to the island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras.

* Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ( 1797 ), during the French Revolutionary Wars in the Canary Islands, Spain

James Duane ( February 6, 1733 – February 1, 1797 ) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Revolutionary leader from New York.

From the end of the 18th on into the latter half of the 19th century, the Castle Mill ’ s ownership history raises more questions than it answers: on 21 October 1793, French Revolutionary troops occupied Electoral Mainz ; on 4 November 1797, France annexed the Rhine ’ s left bank ; on 9 February 1801 the German Empire ceded the area to France in the Treaty of Lunéville.