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.

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.

On behalf of other investors and their heirs, Gen. Samuel Hopkins and Thomas Allin, a surveyor, in 1797 visited Red Banks and laid out plans for a town, which was named Henderson.

New Windsor was laid out in 1797 and originally named Sulphur Springs.

In 1797 John Wallace, a son of the original settler, laid out the town of Waynesburg.

In 1797, Nathaniel Marshall sold land to Andrew McCready, who laid out the design of the town.

The foundation stone of the new Eglinton Castle in Kilwinning was laid in 1797, the 12th Earl of Eglinton, was proud to have the ceremony performed by Alexander Hamilton of Grange, grandfather of the American Hero Alexander Hamilton.

The surrounding park is laid out in an English garden style and contains a range of Romantic follies by Joseph Hardtmuth, including the artificial ruins of a medieval castle on the bank of the Thaya / Dyje River ( 1801 ) and a solitary sixty-metre minaret, reputedly the tallest outside the Muslim world at the time of its construction ( 1797 – 1804 ).

The frontline of the new township was laid out by John Collins in 1790 with further surveys conducted through to 1797.

A number of informal avenues were closed down ( Gerry, for instance, informed Hauteval that they could no longer meet, since Hauteval had no formal authority ), and Talleyrand finally appeared in November 1797 at a dinner, although he primarily castigated the Americans for their unwillingness to accede to the demand for a bribe.

In September 1797, the crew of the mutinied in the West Indies, killing almost all the officers in revenge for a number of grievances including the throwing into the sea of the bodies of three men who had been killed in falling from the rigging in a desperate scramble to avoid flogging for being last man down on deck.

The mill burned down in 1797, and in 1802 he sold the site, complete with a working dam and millrace to Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, who paid $ 6, 740 for the.

The explorer and navigator George Bass found the entrance to the Shoalhaven River during his whaleboat voyage down the south coast of New South Wales in 1797.

Pope Pius VI had the original silver statue melted down, ostensibly to pay the war reparations to Napoleon, as established by the Treaty of Tolentino, 1797.

This burnt down in 1795 and a smaller building, the Phoenix Mill was erected in 1797.

When the church was pulled down by the French in 1797, Charlotte's remains were moved to the Oratorio della Santissima Trinità.

The rule of thirds was first written down by John Thomas Smith in 1797.

Two Vaudois, Charles Monnard ( 1790 – 1865 ) and Louis Vulliemin ( 1797 – 1879 ) carried out their great scheme of translating ( 1837 1840 ) J von Müller's Swiss history with its continuation by Hottinger, and then completed it ( 1841 – 1851 ) down to 1815.

The Catholic university of Louvain, founded in 1425, was closed down during the occupation of the Low Countries in 1797 after the French revolutionaries occupied the country.

In 1797 there was a coup d ' état which used troops against the opposition, closed down opposing newspapers, cancelled election results, and condemned hundreds of opponents to exile or death.

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 ''.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

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.

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.

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.

The music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as an anthem for the birthday of the Austrian Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire.

The new sailing frigates were able to fight with all their guns when the seas were so rough that comparable two-deckers had to close the gun-ports on their lower decks ( see the Action of 13 January 1797, for an example when this was decisive ).

Watt continued to experiment with various gases for several years, but by 1797 the medical uses for the " factitious airs " had come to a dead end. Scientific apparatus designed by Boulton and Watt in preparation of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol

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 ).

Some time between 9 and 14 October 1797, when Coleridge says he had completed the tragedy, he left Stowey for Lynton.

The word was originally an alchemist's term for the extraction of metals from minerals: the ending-urgy signifying a process, especially manufacturing: it was in this sense it was used by the 1797 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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.

Following Thomas Williams's sentence of one year's hard labor for publishing The Age of Reason in 1797, no editions were sold openly in Britain until 1818 when Richard Carlile included it in an edition of Paine's complete works.

* 1797: Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1, 000 years of independence for the Serene Republic.

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

** A-kuei, Chinese noble general for the Ch ' ing dynasty ( d. 1797 )

On January 6, 1797, Representative William L. Smith of South Carolina presented a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives for an amendment to the Constitution by which the presidential electors would designate which candidate would be president and which would be vice-president.

The immediate cause of the parliamentary loss had been the government's decision to drop the prosecution of communist editor John Ross Campbell under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 for publication of an open letter in Workers Weekly calling on soldiers to " let it be known that, neither in the class war nor in a military war, will you turn your guns on your fellow workers.

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.

Clay studied for the bar for a year under Brooke and was admitted to practice law in 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.

Paul I of Russia promulgated a strict new house law for Russia in 1797, eliminating the sovereign's right to designate the heir to the throne, but requiring that dynasts be born of authorized marriages.