Historical Events In 1797

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

Feb 26   In the year 1797 first ever pound note issued by the Bank of England  

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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history karl Schwencke, composer  

Mar 13   On this day in history cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris  

Mar 19   On this day in history philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58  

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

Mar 24   On this day in history antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)  

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

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

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

May 12   In the year 1797 first Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.  

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   In the year 1797 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   Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 31   Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony) was born in the year 1797.  

Feb 06   Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs was born in the year 1797.  

Feb 15   On this day in history 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   Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40 in the year 1797.  

Feb 08   Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 01   In the year 1797 juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36