* 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 – 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.

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 )