Page 3: Historical Events In 1797
Friday, 23 January 2026
May 30 Johann Christian Lobe, composer 


Jun 02 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead) 


Jun 02 inaugural ascent of "Great Mountain" (4622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead) 


Jun 06 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic. 


Jun 17 Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated and killed. 


Jun 24 John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx. 


Jun 26 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!. 


Jun 26 Charles Newbold patents inaugural cast-iron plow. Farmers fear the effects of the iron on the soil 


Jul 08 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment. 


Jul 08 inaugural US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment. 


Jul 09 Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68. 


Jul 10 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila 


Jul 10 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) 


Jul 19 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer 


Jul 21 Franz Schoberlechner, composer 


Jul 25 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain) 


Jul 29 Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48 


Aug 03 Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews 


Aug 03 Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80 


Aug 05 Friedrich August Kummer, composer. 


Aug 12 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 


Aug 16 Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth 


Aug 23 Emanuel Allen sold at public auction in Montreal; last slave transaction in Canada 


Aug 30 Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein' is born. 


Aug 30 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein). 


Sep 01 2nd National Meeting in Hague 


Sep 06 Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army) 


Sep 16 Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum. 


Sep 18 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies. 


Sep 20 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston 


Sep 23 Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57 


Oct 04 J Gotthelf, writer. 


Oct 09 Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77 


Oct 10 Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61 


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