1797
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Events
- January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers.
- January 7 - The parliament of the Repubblica Cisalpina adopts the Italian Tricolore as official flag: here starts the story of the Flag of Italy.
- February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
- February 26 - The Bank of England (national bank of Britain) issues the first one pound note (discontinued March 11 1988).
- March 4 - John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
- May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice ending the 1070 years of independence of city.
- July 24 - Horatio Nelson wounded at Tenerife - injury causes a loss of one arm.
- September 7 - Treaty of Campo Formio ends the War of the First Coalition.
- October 21 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli (in 1805 the Tripoli peace treaty was signed on Constitution's deck).
- Large-scale mutinies in Royal Navy
Ongoing events
Births
- January 31 - Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist, composer
- February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway - German-American piano manufacturer
- March 22 - Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (d. 1888)
- March 27 - Alfred de Vigny, French author
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (d. 1854)
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecroft (later Mary Shelley), English writer
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist.
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine, German poet
Deaths
- February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer.
- March 26 - James Hutton (geologist)
- July 9 - Edmund Burke, philosopher
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander
- November - Frederick William II of Prussia
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