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

The Bonapartes were back in Ajaccio in 1797 under the protection of general Napoleon.

A writer and follower of the philosophers of the Enlightenment tradition of the previous century, Jovellanos had served as Minister of Justice from 1797 to 1798 under King Charles IV of Spain.

The Militia Act of 1797 empowered Scottish Lord Lieutenants to raise and command militia regiments in each of the " Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places " under their jurisdiction.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

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.

Between 1793 and 1797 he fought French Revolutionaries under the command of Austrian General Dagobert-Sigismond de Wurmser ( 1724 – 1797 ) with the European coalition on the Austrian side.

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.

Under the latter's weak rule the island suffered considerably from the inroads of various adventurers ; hence in 1386 it placed itself under the protection of Venice, which in 1401 acquired formal sovereignty over Corfu and kept it until the French Occupation in 1797.

Clay studied for the bar for a year under Brooke and was admitted to practice law in 1797.

Padua passed under Venetian rule in 1405, and so mostly remained until the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797.

Then on August 5, 1797, John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, was tried in federal court as the first American to be tried under the 1794 law.

The Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 14 February 1797 ) was one of the opening battles of The Anglo-Spanish War ( 1796 – 1808 ) where a British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.

Work on the site of Mission San Jose commenced in May 1797 by Indian people from Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, under direction of Franciscan missionaries and secular Hispanic overseers.

Ithaca was then occupied by France under the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio.

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 ).

The last doge was Ludovico Manin, who abdicated in 1797, when Venice passed under the power of Napoleon's France following his conquest of the city.

In 1797, under pressure from Napoleon, Genoa became a French protectorate called the Ligurian Republic, which was annexed by France in 1805.

The remains of the ship were buried under landfill when the shoreline was extended starting in 1797, and were discovered during excavation work in 1916.

When free trade was established in Cologne by the French in 1797, the success of Eau de Cologne prompted countless other businessmen to sell their own fragrances under the name of Eau de Cologne.

Britannia also appeared on the penny coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence under William IV between 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008.

In 1797 he established the Santa Anita Ranch, which was still in operation in 1995 under the name McAllen Ranch.

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.

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.

It is estimated that during his two terms as President of the United States ( 1789 – 1797 ) Washington spent 434 days in residence at Mount Vernon.

When the Governor died in December 1797, he became governor and was re-elected to eleven consecutive terms until his death in 1809 in Lebanon, Connecticut.

In 1797 he spent two terms at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Rodney served six terms as State Representative, from the 1797 session through the 1802 session.

Bayard was first elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1796, and served there for three terms, from March 4, 1797 until March 3, 1803.

Bourrienne did not proceed with him into Italy, but was called there by the victorious general at the time of the long negotiations with Austria ( May-October 1797 ), when his knowledge of law and diplomacy was useful in drafting the terms of the Treaty of Campo Formio ( October 7 ).

He was one of Kentucky's first two representatives in the House, and was elected to three successive terms, serving from November 9, 1792 to March 3, 1797.

After his terms in Congress, he was again a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1797, 1798, 1800, and 1801.

Later, he served a number of terms in the State Assembly, and was its Speaker in 1792-1794 and in 1797.

After 1791, when Otsego County was split off from Montgomery County, Cooper became county judge and later served two terms in Congress, elected as a Federalist to the 4th ( March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797 ) and the 6th United States Congresses ( March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801 ).

On 1 June 1797, a ceremonial cut was made on the banks of the River Severn, where the canal was eventually planned to join it, but only £ 62, 582 had been raised under the terms of the second Act, and with some £ 25, 000 owing, all work ceased.

When the Grand Master of the Military Order of the Knights of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst ( i. e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire ) in 1607, became ( in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual church hierarchy of ordained ministers ) the most senior official after the most junior member of the Cardinals in 1630, he was also awarded the hybrid style His Most Eminent Highness, to recognize his status as a type of prince of the Church.

It was requisitioned by Napoleon Bonaparte by terms of the Treaty of Campoformio ( 1797 ) during his invasion of Italy and taken in triumph to Paris, where it was put on display.

The President's House served as the official residence and principal workplace for President George Washington during his two terms, and President John Adams occupied it from March 1797 to May 1800.

He served two other terms in the House ( 1797 – 1799 ) and ( 1813 – 1815 ).

She helped win more favorable terms for giving up their rights to the land at the Treaty of Big Tree ( 1797 ).

* 1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.

Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

This task will be the responsibility of the Law Society of Upper Canada ( founded in 1797 ), which already regulates Ontario's 40, 000 or so lawyers.

He assumed the surname of Savile by Act of Parliament in 1797 in accordance with the will of his uncle Sir George Savile and inherited the Savile estates on his brother's death.

The institution's origin is rooted in the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick.

Hartwick Seminary was founded in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister from Germany who led several mission congregations of early settlers along the Hudson River and the Mohawk River in what is now upstate New York.

Aide-toi, le ciel t ' aidera (" Help yourself, and heaven will help you ") was a French association led by Adolphe Thiers ( 1797 – 1877 ), French politician, who was working for more democracy under the French Restauration ( 1814, 1830 ), and Charles X of France, king from 1824 to 1830.

With word of French plans to occupy Egypt, Nelson wrote to Berry in late 1797, ' If you mean to marry, I would recommend your doing it speedily, or the to-be Mrs. Berry will have very little of your company, for I am well, and you may expect to be called for every hour '.

Adams expresses hope that the as yet unfulfilled obligations of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( 1797 ), surveying the St. Croix River between Maine and New Brunswick and paying debts American citizens owed to British subjects prior to the American Revolutionary War, due to various unstated causes, and the unfulfilled obligations of the Spanish regarding compensation for American ships stolen or destroyed in recent Franco-Spanish hostilities, will continue without offending citizens of any country.