* 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.

From 1795 to 1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers, a verse tragedy set during the reign of King Henry III of England when Englishmen of the north country were in conflict with Scottish rovers.

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

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

The Papers of Henry Clay, 1797 – 1852.

* Henry Venn ( Clapham Sect ) the elder, ( 1725 – 1797 ), English evangelical minister

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.

On 14 October 1797 William Orr was hanged in the town following what was widely regarded as a showtrial held in Carrickfergus Courthouse ( now the Town Hall ) and in 1798 United Irish founder Henry Joy McCracken was captured on the outskirts of the town while trying to escape to America.

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.

* Henry Steinway ( 1797 – 1871 ), founder of Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers

Joseph Henry ( December 17, 1797 – May 13, 1878 ) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution.

* Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave ( 1797 – 1863 ) ( created Marquess of Normanby in 1838 )

* Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby ( 1797 – 1863 )

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby KG GCB GCH, PC ( 15 May 1797 – 28 July 1863 ), styled Viscount Normanby between 1812 and 1831 and known as The Earl of Mulgrave between 1831 and 1838, was a British Whig politician and author.

*" Normanby, Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of ( 1797 – 1863 ), 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ; 1911encyclopedia. org

Of the Picturesque genre, Hugh Henry Brackenridge published Modern Chivalry in 1792-1815 ; Tabitha Gilman Tenney wrote Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventure of Dorcasina Sheldon in 1801 ; Charlotte Lennox wrote The Female Quixote in 1752, and Royall Tyler wrote The Algerine Captive in 1797.

Anne, Flaxman's wife, by Henry Howard ( artist ) | Henry Howard, c. 1797

John Henry ( F ), until December 10, 1797

Henry Hastings Sibley was born in Detroit, Michigan, where his parents, Solomon Sibley ( 1769 – 1846 ), a native of Sutton, Massachusetts, and Sarah Whipple ( Sproat ) Sibley had moved in 1797.

* May 8 – Henry Collen, English royal miniature portrait painter ( b. 1797 )

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Two of these were Henry Law ( 1797 – 1884 ), dean of Gloucester, and James Thomas Law ( 1790 – 1876 ), chancellor of the diocese of Lichfield.

The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797 – 98 by British scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory, and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant .< ref > Many sources state erroneously that this was the first measurement of G ( or the Earth's density ), such as Online copy of Cavendish's 1798 paper, and other early measurements of gravitational constant.

* Lord Henry Adam Lennox ( 6 September 1797 – 1812 ), fell overboard from HMS Blake and drowned.