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

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

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

* 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.

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB ( sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery ) ( 29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797 ) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

* January 29 – Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, British soldier and conqueror of Quebec ( died 1797 )

* January 29-Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer ( died 1797 )

* Baron Amherst ( 1776 ), extinct 1797, a barony in the Peerage of Great Britain

Lord Amherst had succeeded his uncle Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, as second Baron Amherst in 1797.

* Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ( 1717 – 1797 )

* Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ( 1717 – 1797 )

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: 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.

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

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

* 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

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

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.

* Lord George William Frederick Osborne ( 21 July 1775 – 10 July 1838 ), later 6th Duke of Leeds ; married Lady Charlotte Townshend, daughter of the 1st Marquess Townshend, on 17 August 1797 and had issue.

Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan ( 1 July 1731 – 4 August 1804 ) was a British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown ( north of Haarlem ) on 11 October 1797.

* Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston ( 1726 – 1797 )

Earl Belmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1797 for Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Viscount Belmore, who had previously represented County Tyrone in the Irish House of Commons.

* Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden ( 1731 – 1797 )

* Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden, 5th Baronet ( 1731 – 1797 )

In 1797 he was therefore created Baron Lowther, of Whitehaven in the County of Cumberland, and Viscount Lowther, of Whitehaven in the County of Cumberland, with remainder to the heirs male of his deceased third cousin, Reverend Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston, to whom he also devised his considerable estates.

* Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore ( 1797 – 1837 )

* Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton ( 1737 – 1797 )

* John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, 1st Baron Braybrooke ( born John Griffin Whitwell ; 1719 – 1797 )