When Fat ' h Ali became the Shah of Persia in 1797, he was given a set of the Britannica's 3rd edition, which he read completely ; after this feat, he extended his royal title to include " Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica ".

* 1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

The song is a lively mazurka with lyrics penned by Józef Wybicki in Reggio nell ' Emilia, Cisalpine Republic ( now in Italy ), around 16 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the once vast country from the map.

The Valtellina became a dependency of the Drei Bünde again after the Treaty and remained so until the founding of the Cisalpine Republic by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797.

He married again in 1797, although this second wife also died after a short time.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

The draft-Constitution was to be subjected to a referendum on August 8, 1797, after a very lively campaign in which the French ambassador Noël weighed in with a supportive appeal.

One effect was that construction of new settlements was effectively suspended after Nennortalik ( 1797 ) for a century until the establishment of Ammassalik on the eastern shore in 1894.

A few years after the French Revolution, the Ionian area came under the rule of the First French Republic ( 1797 – 1798 ), and the island became the honorary capital of Cephallonia, Lefkada, and part of the Greek mainland, which formed the French département of Ithaque ( the prefecture was at Argostoli on Kefalonia ).

In 1797, several decades after the city's founding, Louis Philippe, later the King of France from 1830 to 1840, stayed in Wilkes-Barre while traveling to the French Asylum settlement.

According to David Barrett, a Masonic researcher, the Eye seems to have been used only sporadically by the Masons in those decades, and was not adopted as a common Masonic symbol until 1797, several years after the Great Seal of the United States had already been designed.

Since 1797, one group of settlements was called Königshütte ( Królewska Huta in Polish ) after the iron works.

It has been argued that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel ( written between 1797 and 1801, but not published until 1816 ) has influenced the development of vampire fiction: the heroine Christabel is seduced by a female supernatural being called Geraldine who tricks her way into her residence and eventually tries to marry her after having assumed the appearance of an old beloved of hers.

It is named after Joseph Henry ( 1797 – 1878 ), the American scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction independently of and at about the same time as Michael Faraday ( 1791 – 1867 ) in England.

The Cisalpine Republic, a French client state founded in 1797 after the French occupation of Northern Italy, required every university professor to swear loyalty to the new authority.

In 1797 the body of the sailor Richard Parker, hanged for his leading role in the Nore mutiny, was given a Christian burial at Whitechapel after his wife exhumed it from the unconsecrated burial ground to which it was originally consigned.

On January 1, 1797, the county of Bullitt-named after Thomas Bullitt's nephew and Kentucky's first Lieutenant Governor Alexander Scott Bullitt-was created from land given by Jefferson and Nelson counties through an act approved on December 13, 1796 by the Kentucky General Assembly.

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.

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.

Residents referred to their new community as “ Brunerstown ,” but it was officially named “ Jeffersontown ”, after then Vice-President Thomas Jefferson, on May 3, 1797, when it was incorporated as a city.

In 1797, after five years of war, the French Republic subdued the First Coalition.

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.

The township was incorporated in 1797 out of part of the existing Newton Township, and was said to have been named after Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a visitor who hailed from that area came to help out at the rural school in the township.

In February 1797, he wrote: “ You to whom nature has given spirit, sweetness, and beauty, you who alone can move and rule my heart, you who know all too well the absolute empire you exercise over it !” Many of his letters are still intact today, while very few of hers have been found ; it is not known whether this is due to their having been lost or to their initial scarcity.

In 1797 William's observations had shown that there were a great many discrepancies in the star catalogue published by John Flamsteed, which was difficult to use due to its having been published as two volumes, the catalogue proper and a volume of original observations.

On Leclerc's return, he accepted Bonaparte's offer of Pauline's hand in marriage and they married in 1797, having one child, and occupying the Château de Montgobert.

Hogg first became familiar with the work of the recently deceased Robert Burns in 1797, after having the poem Tam o ' Shanter read to him.

In 1623, having been taken in the sack of Heidelberg in the Thirty Years ' War, it was sent with the rest of the Palatine Library to Rome as a present from Maximilian I of Bavaria to Pope Gregory XV, who had it divided into two parts, the first of which was by far the larger ; thence it was taken to Paris in 1797.

In 1797, having been made general of division, he served first in the army of the Rhine and later in that of Italy.

He moved to India and left Hannah in London to raise their children ; Thomas died there in 1797, never having returned to England.

Sir Godfrey Webster having obtained a divorce, the couple were able to marry on 6 July 1797.

The physician J. B. De Mainaduc ( died 1797 ) having received his medical training in England, moved to Paris in 1782 and while there learned animal magnetism from D ' Eslon.

With the road leading from Albany northwest to Schenectady having been already established as a turnpike ( the Albany and Schenectady Turnpike ) in 1797, an all-turnpike route over good quality roads was now available from Albany to Canandaigua.

Juncos was founded on the request of Tomás Pizarro on August 2, 1797, having previously beeing a village which evolved from a small ranch, the Hatillo de los Juncos.

He was made Baron Keith of the United Kingdom, an Irish barony having been conferred on him in 1797.

La Réveliière-Lépeaux, having become a member of the Directoire, allowed Bosc to leave for the United States, first as vice-consul to Wilmington in 1797, then as consul to New York in 1798.

Archduke Ferdinand, the Governor of Lombardy up to 1796, went to live there after having been forced to relinquish his land to the French following the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797, leaving him without a residence.

Working to the end, he died in 1797 of consumption ( i. e. tuberculosis ), having exhibited his final works at the Royal Academy ( Evening and A Dream ) the previous year.

In July 1797 he wrote to Dr. Samuel Jones, " Thus having explored and charted the Missurie for 1, 800 miles and by my Communications with the Indians this side of the Pacific Ocean from 35 to 49 degrees of Latitude, I am able to inform you that there is no such People as the Welsh Indians.

Richard, an ardent advocate of Catholic emancipation, was created Viscount Donoughmore in 1797, and in 1800 ( having voted for the Union, hoping to secure Catholic emancipation from the united parliament ) he was further created Earl of Donoughmore of Knocklofty, being succeeded first by his brother John Hely-Hutchinson ( 1757 – 1832 ) and then by his nephew John, 3rd Earl ( 1787 – 1851 ), from whom the title descended.

He transferred to the New South Wales Corps on 30 September 1797, exchanging with a Lieutenant Beckwith, and was made paymaster on 23 June 1798, having been on half pay.

In 1796, he became Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, having purchased this seat from the representatives of the Duke of Newcastle, and in 1797 succeeded his grandfather as 5th Baronet.

George Bass first took shelter in Twofold bay on the return leg of a voyage to Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ) in February, 1798, having noted the bay on the southward leg of this same voyage in December 1797.