First use of a frameless parachute, by André Garnerin in 1797

The death of Cato ( La mort de Caton d ' Utique ) was also a popular theme in revolutionary France, being sculpted by Philippe-Laurent Roland ( 1782 ) and painted by Bouchet Louis André Gabriel, Bouillon Pierre, and Guérin Pierre Narcisse in 1797.

After serving with Louis Lazare Hoche and André Masséna in Germany and Switzerland ( 1797 – 99 ), Pajol took a cavalry command under Jean Victor Marie Moreau for the campaign on the upper Rhine.

* 1797 – One thousand meters ( 3, 200 feet ) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.

Garnerin releases the balloon and descends with the help of a parachute, 1797.

Garnerin regularly staged tests and demonstrations at Parc Monceau, Paris from 1797, but these became a cause célèbre when he announced in 1798 that his next flight would include a woman as a passenger.

Garnerin began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices and carried out the first jump with a silk parachute on October 22, 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris.

In 1811, prompted by discussions with a Chinese student about Chinese script, Silvestre de Sacy considered a suggestion made by Georg Zoëga in 1797 that the foreign names in Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions might be written phonetically ; he also recalled that as long ago as 1761, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy had suggested that the characters enclosed in cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were proper names.

Importantly Wood ’ s plan was made before the collapse of the southwest trilithon, which fell in 1797 and was restored in 1958.

Count Peter Alexandrovich ( 1761 – 1844 ) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.

In 1797 he made his appearance on the boards in several successive parts, but soon discovered that he possessed no real histrionic talent.

Grey made a second attempt to raise the subject in 1797, but the House again rebuffed him by a majority of more than 150.

In 1792 and 1797 he was in Vienna ; in 1795 he made a geological and botanical tour through Switzerland and Italy.

* Dundee Marmalade, type of marmalade made from Seville oranges invented in the Scottish city of Dundee in 1797

From 1797 to 1832, Sumter County was part of the Choctaw Nation, which was made up of four main villages.

The first town laid out in the county was North Liberty, established by Lucas Sullivant in 1797, but the first settlement in the county was made in present-day Jerome township by Joshua and James Ewing in 1798.

After 1797, under Napoleonic rule, it was made a duché grand-fief ( not a grand duchy, but a hereditary ( extinguished in 1896 ), nominal duchy, a rare honor reserved for French officials ) within Bonaparte's personal Kingdom of Italy for general Caulaincourt, also imperial Grand-Écuyer.

Keillers ' well-known claim to have ' invented ' orange marmalade in 1797 is debunked by such references as " My wife has made marmalade of oranges for you " in James Boswell's letter to Dr Johnson of 24 April 1777.

Paul offered to mediate between Austria and France through Prussia and pushed Austria to make peace, but the two countries made peace without his assistance, signing the Treaty of Campoformio in October 1797.

The magnificent gold " button ", or morse ( a clasp for a cape ), made by Cellini for the cape of Clement VII, the competition for which is so graphically described in his autobiography, appears to have been sacrificed by Pope Pius VI, with many other priceless specimens of the goldsmith's art, in furnishing the 30, 000, 000 francs demanded by Napoleon I at the conclusion of the campaign against the Papal States in 1797.

He made one great speech in the council in defence of the principles of religious liberty, but the coup d ' état of Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ) drove him back into private life.

Following the opening of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation in 1797, cheaper transportation and raw materials made milling and malting the main industries until the 1850s, when increasing prosperity created a local market for agricultural machinery.

Several of his friendships amongst the abolitionists were made in Clapham ( home to the Clapham Sect ) where he had moved from Sloane Square in 1797.

His sailor brother William with children to provide for had been made Ranger of Bushy Park in 1797.

Drouet was implicated in the conspiracy of Babeuf, and was imprisoned, but made his escape into Switzerland, and went from there to Tenerife, where he took part in the successful resistance to Horatio Nelson's attack on the island, in 1797 ; he later visited India.

Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great deal of so-called humorous poetry ( mostly coarse, though much of it was popular )-- My Night Gown and Slippers ( 1797 ), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802 ; and Poetical Vagaries ( 1812 ).

On the night of May 2, 1797, Sarah Siddons's character of Agnes in Lillo's Fatal Curiosity suggested murder with " an expression in her face that made the flesh of the spectator creep.

In 1797 he was made an associate of the Royal Academy.

After the coup of the 18th Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ) Dumas, being proscribed as a monarchist, made his escape to Holstein, where he wrote the first part of his Précis des événements militaires ( published anonymously at Hamburg, 1800 ).

In June 1797, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter.

During the 1796 – 1797 session he made several speeches, always reading from notes.

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.

* 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.

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.

* 1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.

* 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.

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.

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.

One of the first was the Hoboken Turtle Club ( 1797 ), which still survived as of 1911.

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.