* 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.

* 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.

* James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ) founder of modern geology

In 1797, the modern city of Augusta split from Hallowell to be a separate town.

In 1794 he returned to St Etienne, where, but only for a short period, he filled a municipal office ; and from 1797 to 1799 he devoted himself to strenuous study, more especially of the literature and history, both ancient and modern, of Greece and Italy.

Karl Otfried Müller ( 28 August 1797 – 1 August 1840 ), was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology.

The modern philosophical concept was developed in the 18th century by Scottish geologist James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ).

One major rabbinic contemporary who praised Luzzatto's writing was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), who was considered to be the most authoritative Torah sage of the modern era as well as a great kabbalist himself.

In 1797 a garrison was built east of modern day Bathurst Street, on the east bank of Garrison Creek.

* The Hereditary Lands, which covered most of the modern states of Austria and Slovenia, as well as territories in northeastern Italy and ( before 1797 ) southwestern Germany.

In the period between 1795 and 1797, Yusef Khan-e Gorji, renamed Yusef Khan-e Sepahdar by the Shah, settled his army in the fertile though poorly-controlled territory that would become modern Arak.

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

John Murray ( 1741 – 1815 ) and Elhanan Winchester ( 1751 – 1797 ) are usually credited as founders of the modern Universalist movement and founding teachers of universal salvation.

Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).

Eighteenth century Gothic horror drew on these sources in such works as Vathek ( 1786 ) by William Beckford, The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) and The Italian ( 1796 ) by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk ( 1797 ) by Matthew Lewis.

* 1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist ( b. 1797 )

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

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

* April 8 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer ( b. 1797 )

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848 ) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy.

* Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea.

Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on 19 February 1797 ; but on 28 December of that year, in a riot blamed by papal forces on some Italian and French revolutionists, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion.

In the Italian campaigns of 1796 – 1797, Eugène served as aide-de-camp to his stepfather, whom he also accompanied to Egypt.

The result was instead credited to the Italian Lorenzo Mascheroni, who independently delivered a proof a hundred years later ( 1797 ).

In January 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte went to Lyon and accepted the presidency of the Italian Republic, a nominally independent client republic covering northern Italy, established in 1797.

He began serving under Napoleon Bonaparte in the Alpine and Italian campaigns, fighting at Castiglione della Pescaia and Rivoli and rising to général de brigade in 1797.

The Divine Praises were originally written in Italian by Luigi Felici in 1797 for the purpose of making reparation after saying or hearing profanity or blasphemy.

The first entity to use the Italian tricolour was the Cispadane Republic in 1797, after Napoleon's victorious army crossed Italy.

The first official tricolore italiano, or Italian tricolour, was adopted on 7 January 1797, when the XIVth Parliament of the Cispadane Republic, on the proposal of deputy Giuseppe Compagnoni of Lugo, decreed " to make universal the ... standard or flag of three colours, green, white, and red ..." This was probably because the Legione Lombarda had carried banners of red, white ( from the flag of Milan ), and green ( from the uniform of the civic guard ), and the same colours were later adopted in the banners of the Legione Italiana, which was formed by soldiers coming from Emilia and Romagna.

Napoleon Bonaparte considered the Almanack significant enough to translate it into Italian, along with the Pennsylvania State Constitution ( which Franklin helped draft ), when he established the Cisalpine Republic in 1797.

Leopold II of Tuscany ( Italian: Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, German: Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl ; 3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870 ) was the last reigning grand duke of Tuscany ( 1824 – 1859 ).

The Most Serene Republic of Genoa (, Ligurian: ) was an independent state from 1005 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast, as well as Corsica from 1347 to 1768, and numerous other territories throughout the Mediterranean.

Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi ( 16 September 1797 – 8 April 1879 ), better known as Anthony Panizzi, was a naturalized British librarian of Italian birth and an Italian patriot.