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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Mar 07   In the year 1797 karl Schwencke, composer  

Mar 13   On this day in history 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) 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   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   Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1797.  

Apr 10   Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man) in the year 1797.  

Apr 12   Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

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

May 10   1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched on this day in history.  

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

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

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

May 12   On this day in history johann Hermann Kufferath, composer  

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

Jan 12   Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873) was born in the year 1797.  

Jan 22   In the year 1797 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   In the year 1797 birth of franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Aust, composer (Unfinished Symphony)  

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 in the year 1797.  

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

Jan 30   In the year 1797 johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40  

Feb 08   In the year 1797 johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81  

Feb 11   On this day in history antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83  

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

Feb 27   On this day in history benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61  

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