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.

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.

On 27 December 1797, the last Tagsatzung of the Old Swiss Confederacy was held in Aarau.

The city was under the Republic of Venice from 1405 to 1797.

In 1797 he was sent to arrest the victorious march of General Bonaparte in Italy, and he conducted the retreat of the over-matched Austrians with the highest skill.

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.

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.

It later came to the attention of the West when it was discovered by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin in the mineral crocoite ( lead ( II ) chromate ) in 1797.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

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 melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Requesting a sitting from the busy and impatient general, David was able to sketch Napoleon in 1797.

By 1797, when the third edition was completed, it had been expanded to 18 volumes addressing a full range of topics, with articles contributed by a range of authorities on their subjects.

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 ".

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

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 ).

Charles Francis Badini created the Original Fanology or Ladies ' Conversation Fan which was published by William Cock in London in 1797.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

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 ).

The future site of Washington Square was a potter's field from 1797 to 1823 when 10 to 20, 000 of New York's poor were buried here, and still remain.

He therefore confined his attention to several practical arts and trades ; and to these labors we owe his Beiträge zur Geschichte der Erfindungen ( 1780-1805 ), translated into English as the History of Inventions, discoveries and origins ( 1797, 4th ed 1846 ) a work in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, & c., employed in trade and for domestic purposes.

Its history thenceforth closely follows that of Brescia, therefore sharing the Venetian dominion from 1466 until Venice's demise in 1797.

He was a friend of Jean-François Rewbell and therefore was entrusted with various diplomatic missions, including to Lille to negotiate with Lord Malmesbury in October 1797 and to Rastadt in 1799 to negotiate with the congress.

Brooke County was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.

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.

This is, however, a 19th century work by Luigi Ferrrari, created to replace the original destroyed in 1797.

The town was one of the original six towns of the county, created in 1797 from Schoharie.

Sharon was created in 1797 from the Town of Schoharie during the early organization of Schoharie County.

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.

* Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave ( 1797 – 1863 ) ( created Marquess of Normanby in 1838 )

Between 1790 and 1797 when the Navy Department was created, the Revenue-Marine was the only armed maritime service for the United States.

* Admiral Sir Adam Duncan, victor of the Battle of Camperdown, was created Viscount Duncan of Camperdown in 1797.

* Admiral Sir John Jervis, victor of the Battle of Cape St Vincent, was created Earl of St Vincent in 1797, and was further created Viscount St Vincent in 1801.

She was the wife of Thomas Orde, who assumed the additional surname of Powlett and was created Baron Bolton in 1797.

He was created Viscount Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, in 1789, Viscount Mount Charles and Earl Conyngham in 1797, and Viscount Slane, in the County of Meath, Earl of Mount Charles and Marquess Conyngham, of the County of Donegal, in 1816.

He did not succeed, however, in removing the attainder of 1716, but was created by George III of the Hanoverian dynasty, in 1797, Lord Perth, Baron Drummond of Stobhall, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which title became extinct on his death in 1800.

* Constantine Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave ( 1797 – 1863 ), created Marquess of Normanby in 1838

The Law Society was created in 1797 to regulate the legal profession in the British colony of Upper Canada.

* Sir Edward King, 5th Baronet ( 1726 – 1797 ) ( created Earl of Kingston in 1768 )

Earl Belmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1797 for Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Viscount Belmore, who had previously represented County Tyrone in the Irish House of Commons.

* Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Viscount Jocelyn ( 1731 – 1797 ) ( created Earl of Roden in 1771 )

Moreover, his wife, Grace Toler ( née Graham ), had been created Baroness Norwood, of Knockalton in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of Ireland in 1797, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.

* Sir James Lowther, 5th Baronet ( 1736 – 1802 ) ( created Earl of Lonsdale in 1784 and Viscount Lowther in 1797 )

He had previously represented County Galway in the Irish Parliament and had already been created Baron Kilconnel, of Garbally in the County of Galway, in 1797, and Viscount Dunlo, of Dunlo and Ballinasloe in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon, in 1801.

Alexander had already been created Baron Caledon in 1790 and Viscount Caledon in 1797, also in the Peerage of Ireland.