Historical Events In 1797

Feb 26   Bank of England issues first £1-note in the year 1797.  

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   On this day in history horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79  

Mar 04   John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US on this day in history.  

Mar 07   Karl Schwencke, composer in the year 1797.  

Mar 13   Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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

Mar 27   In the year 1797 alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)  

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

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

Apr 03   CAPT Thomas Truxtun issued first known American signal book using numerary system on this day in history.  

Apr 03   On this day in history nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66  

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

Apr 12   On this day in history josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71  

Apr 14   Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77) in the year 1797.  

Apr 17   In the year 1797 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   France & Austria signs cease fire on this day in history.  

Apr 18   Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France in the year 1797.  

Apr 30   Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra in the year 1797.  

May 05   In the year 1797 napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi  

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

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

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

May 12   First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice in the year 1797.  

May 12   Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer in the year 1797.  

May 18   In the year 1797 frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)  

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Jan 04   Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map) was born in the year 1797.  

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

Jan 12   In the year 1797 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 in the year 1797.  

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

Feb 06   In the year 1797 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   Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Jan 13   In the year 1797 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   In the year 1797 johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81  

Feb 11   Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 in the year 1797.  

Feb 22   Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) died in the year 1797.  

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

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