* 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 – 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.

Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.

However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.

* 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.

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

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

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

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.

Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

Horatio Nelson | Nelson receiving the surrender of the Spanish ship San José | San José at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Daniel Orme, painted 1799

In 1797 the Dutch fleet was defeated by the British in the Battle of Camperdown.

* British 32-gun frigate HMS Terpsichore commanded by Captain Bowen participated in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ( 1797 ).

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.

Fishguard's ancient Royal Oak pub was the site of the signing of surrender after the Battle of Fishguard in 1797, said to be the last invasion of Britain, when a force of 1, 400 French soldiers landed near Fishguard but surrendered two days later.

* 1797 Battle of Camperdown-During the Napoleonic wars.

* Ann Cooper Whitall ( 1716 – 1797 ), a prominent Quaker woman known for her actions at the Battle of Red Bank.

The Battle of Diersheim ( 20 – 21 April 1797 ) saw a First French Republic army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau clash with a Habsburg Austrian army commanded by Anton Count Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly.

The Battle of Neuwied was fought on April 18, 1797.

The Battle of Rivoli ( 14 – 15 January 1797 ) was a key victory in the French campaign in Italy against Austria.

See Rivoli 1797 Campaign Order of Battle.

# redirect Battle of Neuwied ( 1797 )

On 17 April 1797, during the Battle of Neuwied, Ney led a cavalry charge against Austrian lancers trying to seize French cannons.

In 1853, after seven years of absence, Baldorioty de Castro returned to Puerto Rico and married Isabel Matilde Díaz y Ruiz, the granddaughter of Lieutenant Francisco Díaz, hero of the Battle of San Juan of 1797.

This is because Adam Duncan ( 1 July 1731-4 August 1804 ), defeated the Dutch fleet off there on 11 October 1797 in the Battle of Camperdown.