Satirical cartoon protesting against the introduction of paper money, by James Gillray, 1797.

In 1834 James Frampton, a local landowner, wrote to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the members of the Friendly Society had done.

* 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ( d. 1797 )

James Hutton ( Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS – 26 March 1797 ) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist.

* September 26 – James Ferguson, Scotland-born American astronomer ( b. 1797 )

* March 28 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader ( b. 1797 )

** Edward James Eliot, English politician ( d. 1797 )

** James Davenport, U. S. Representative for Connecticut ( d. 1797 )

* June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ( d. 1797 )

A bottle of Madeira was used by visiting Captain James Server to christen the USS Constitution in 1797.

There is, however, a dearth of letters from Murdoch to Watt from 1780 until 1797 in the Watt archive, possibly, as argued by John Griffiths, due to an attempt by Watt's son, James Watt Junior, to uphold his father's reputation by removing any evidence of the origin of some of the inventions he patented.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

The cycle was inspired by theories of uniformitarianism first formulated by James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ).

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.

It was formed in 1797 and was named for James Garrard, Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.

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

In 1797, after eight years in the House of Representatives, James Madison retired from politics.

The history of the tract of land where what is now Maeystown is situated, began sometime after 1782, when a soldier of the American Revolution, one James McRoberts, staked a claim of 100 acres ( Survey 704 ; Claim 316 ), he subsequently left the Illinois Territory for Tennessee, where he married Mary Fletcher-Harris, and returned in 1797, adding another to his holdings.

East St. Louis was founded in 1797 by Captain James Piggott, a Revolutionary War veteran.

West Point was founded by pioneer James Young, who built a cabin at the site in 1789 and, in 1797, built a brick house and inn that is still standing today.

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.

* James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan ( 1797 – 1868 ), Soldier and Commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

The first Euro-American settlers arrived in what is now Hartsville in 1797, when the family of James Hart settled along the west bank of the West Fork of Goose Creek, and the family of Charles Donoho settled along the creek's east bank.

* Isabella Barr ( 1778-1844 ), who married 1 ) James Denny in 1797 and 2 ) William Florence.

James Keiller & Sons was established in 1797 and exported marmalade and confectionery across the British Empire.

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

He and his three elder siblings – Monique Catherine Josephine Braille ( b. 1793 ), Louis-Simon Braille ( b. 1795 ), and Marie Celine Braille ( b. 1797 ) – lived with their mother, Monique, and father, Simon-René, on three hectares of land and vineyards in the countryside.

In Boston, Louis Philippe learned of the coup of 18 Fructidor ( 4 September 1797 ) and of the exile of his mother to Spain.

Asbury had had a portrait painted of him for his mother in 1797.

In 1795 – 1797, Désirée lived with her mother in Genoa in Italy.

The local estate of Tracy Park, now a golf club, was said to be the inspiration for Black Beauty's “ Birtwick Park .” Sewell's introduction to writing began in her youth when she helped edit the works of her mother, Mary Wright Sewell ( 1797 – 1884 ), a deeply religious, popular author of juvenile best-sellers.

Prince von Dietrichstein was unable to marry Thalberg's mother as he was already married ( to Alexandrine Countess Schuwalow in 1797 ).

His aunt Lady Amabel ( or Annabella ) Yorke had succeeded her mother the Marchioness Grey ( on whose death the marquessate became extinct ) in the barony of Lucas in 1797 and in 1816 she was created Countess de Grey, of Wrest in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with remainder to her sister Lady Mary Jemima and the heirs male of her body.

In September 1797 Louis Charles and his brothers learnt that their mother had gone into exile in Spain, and so they decided to return to Europe.

Jean de Broglie was the first son of Prince Eugene Marie Amédée de Broglie ( 1891 – 1957 ), himself the fourth son of Prince François Marie Albert de Broglie ( 1851 – 1939 ), himself the fourth son of Albert de Broglie, 4th duc de Broglie, whose mother, Albertine de Staël-Holstein ( 1797 – 1838 ), was the daughter of Germaine de Staël and, reputedly, Benjamin Constant.

In response, the British blockaded Spain in 1797 and separated her colonial empire from the mother country.

His father Andrius was Lithuanian nobleman and governor of Trakai, in Lithuania ; his mother, Paula Paulina Szembek ( 1740 – 1797 ), was a daughter of the Polish magnate, Marek Szembek whose ancestors were Austrians and Yadviga Rudnicka who was of polonised Lithuanian descent ( family name's root is of Lithuanian origin and the suffix indicates polonisation of her family name ).

His mother was Catherine Castille, born in 1797.

She ran aground and was lost in 1797 when and HMS Amazon defeated the French ship Droits de l ' Homme in 1797.

In July 1797 he assisted Nelson in the unsuccessful attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and in August 1798, when getting into position for the attack on the French fleet, the Culloden ran aground on a shoal near the entrance to Aboukir Bay and was consequently unable to take any part in the Battle of the Nile.

He ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States House of Representatives in 1797, and held several appointed position in the Virginia state government.