Page 2: Historical Events In 1797

Feb 27   Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61   

Feb 28   Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)   

Mar 01   Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36   

Mar 02   Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79   

Mar 04   John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US   

Mar 07   Karl Schwencke, composer.   

Mar 13   Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris   

Mar 19   Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58   

Mar 22   Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)   

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

Mar 25   John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God.   

Mar 26   James Hutton, geologist, dies   

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

Mar 28   Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.   

Mar 28   Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine.   

Apr 03   CAPT Thomas Truxtun issued inaugural known American signal book using numerary system   

Apr 03   Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66   

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

Apr 12   Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71   

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

Apr 17   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   

Apr 18   France and Austria signs cease fire.   

Apr 18   Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France.   

Apr 30   Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra.   

May 05   Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi   

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

May 10   The inaugural Navy ship, the "United States" is launched.   

May 10   The inaugural U.S. Navy ship, the "United States" is launched   

May 12   inaugural Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.   

May 12   Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer   

May 18   Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)   

May 27   Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36   

May 30   Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48   

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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 on this day in history.   

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

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   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   Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway) was born in the year 1797.   

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

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

Feb 22   Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) died on this day in history.   

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

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