Historical Events In 1797

Feb 26   On this day in history bank of England issues first £1-note  

Feb 26   First ever pound note issued by the Bank of England in the year 1797.  

Feb 27   Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1797.  

Feb 28   Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame) on this day in history.  

Mar 01   Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36 in the year 1797.  

Mar 02   Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 in the year 1797.  

Mar 04   On this day in history john Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US  

Mar 07   On this day in history karl Schwencke, composer  

Mar 13   In the year 1797 cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris  

Mar 19   Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

Mar 22   Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88) on this day in history.  

Mar 24   Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity) in the year 1797.  

Mar 25   In the year 1797 john Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God  

Mar 26   In the year 1797 james Hutton, geologist, dies  

Mar 27   Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton) on this day in history.  

Mar 28   Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine in the year 1797.  

Mar 28   On this day in history nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine  

Apr 03   In the year 1797 cAPT Thomas Truxtun issued first known American signal book using numerary system  

Apr 03   Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1797.  

Apr 10   On this day in history claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)  

Apr 12   Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1797.  

Apr 14   On this day in history adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)  

Apr 17   On this day in history jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor  

Apr 17   Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America in the year 1797.  

Apr 18   In the year 1797 france & Austria signs cease fire  

Apr 18   In the year 1797 louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France  

Apr 30   Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra on this day in history.  

May 05   Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi in the year 1797.  

May 10   1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched in the year 1797.  

May 10   The first Navy ship, the "United States" is launched in the year 1797.  

May 10   The first U.S. Navy ship, the "United States" is launched in the year 1797.  

May 12   On this day in history first Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.  

May 12   In the year 1797 johann Hermann Kufferath, composer  

May 18   On this day in history frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)  

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Jan 04   In the year 1797 birth of wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)  

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)  

Jan 12   In the year 1797 birth of gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)  

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)  

Jan 30   Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 31   Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 06   On this day in history birth of joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs  

Feb 15   In the year 1797 birth of henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)  

Jan 11   On this day in history francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62  

Jan 13   Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81 in the year 1797.  

Jan 30   On this day in history johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40  

Feb 08   Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1797.  

Feb 11   Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Feb 22   On this day in history death of karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)  

Feb 27   In the year 1797 benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61  

Mar 01   On this day in history juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36