Historical Events In 1797

Feb 26   Bank of England issues first £1-note on this day in history.  

Feb 26   First ever pound note issued by the Bank of England on this day in history.  

Feb 27   Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

Feb 28   In the year 1797 mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)  

Mar 01   Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 04   John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US in the year 1797.  

Mar 07   Karl Schwencke, composer on this day in history.  

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

Mar 19   In the year 1797 philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58  

Mar 22   Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88) in the year 1797.  

Mar 24   Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity) on this day in history.  

Mar 25   On this day in history john Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God  

Mar 26   James Hutton, geologist, dies on this day in history.  

Mar 27   Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton) in the year 1797.  

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

Mar 28   Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine on this day in history.  

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

Apr 03   In the year 1797 nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66  

Apr 10   In the year 1797 claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)  

Apr 12   In the year 1797 josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Apr 18   Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France on this day in history.  

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

May 05   On this day in history napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi  

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

May 10   In the year 1797 the first Navy ship, the "United States" is launched  

May 10   On this day in history the first U.S. Navy ship, the "United States" is launched  

May 12   First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice on this day in history.  

May 12   In the year 1797 johann Hermann Kufferath, composer  

May 18   Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54) on this day in history.  

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Jan 04   On this day in history birth of wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)  

Jan 10   Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)  

Jan 22   Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826) was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 30   Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 was born on this day in history.  

Jan 31   On this day in history birth of franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony)  

Feb 06   Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs was born on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 13   On this day in history elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81  

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

Feb 08   On this day in history johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81  

Feb 11   In the year 1797 antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83  

Feb 22   In the year 1797 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