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* 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
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* 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.
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.
# 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.
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.
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In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.
The word autobiography was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical the Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid but condemned it as ' pedantic '; but its next recorded use was in its present sense by Robert Southey in 1809.
In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper had laid out the Mad River Road, the first overland connection between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, opening the " Mad River Country " at Dayton and the upper Miami Valley to settlement.
He devoted much time to his plantations and other business interests, including his distillery which produced its first batch of spirits in February 1797.
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.
The first number appeared on 20 November 1797, with a notice that " the publication would be continued every Monday during the sitting of Parliament ".
King James's Bible is used as the name for the 1611 translation ( on a par with the " Genevan Bible " or the " Rhemish Testament ") in Charles Butler's Horae Biblicae ( first published 1797 ).
The first four battalions had been raised as regular line battalions, but in 1797 a 5th battalion had been raised and equipped entirely with the Baker rifles, and wore green jackets with red facings.
Hufeland, a German physician, in his book The Art of Prolonging Human Life ( 1797 ), first used the word " macrobiotics " in the context of food and health.
* 1797 – One thousand meters ( 3, 200 feet ) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
Back in 1797 had come the first of two proposed schemes that would have afforded the future Potsdamer Platz the appearance of a proper square.
The first noted use of " serendipity " in the English language was by Horace Walpole ( 1717 – 1797 ).
At first, this was to be a temporary tax, but it remained in effect until the fall of the Republic in 1797.
The first president occupied the Market Street mansion from November 1790 to March 1797, and altered it in ways that may have influenced the design of the White House.
* March 27 – The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels ( in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution go into service ), not to be confused with October 13, 1775 which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system-it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis ( Bavaria, 1756 ), the Allgemeines Landrecht ( Prussia, 1794 ), and the West Galician Code ( Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797 ).
Having been awarded first prize in drawing by the Academy, in August 1797 he traveled to Paris to study with Jacques-Louis David, France's — and Europe's — leading painter during the revolutionary period, in whose studio he remained for four years.
However, its exhibition in the Louvre in 1797 caused a sensation with Le Moniteur, which normally dealt with foreign affairs, reporting on it on its first two pages.
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