Today in History for Year 1797

Months in Year 1797: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 35 of 35

Jan 1st - Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY
Jan 7th - The modern Italian flag is first used.
Jan 15th - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
Jan 26th - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
Jan 30th - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
Feb 4th - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
Feb 12th - Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna
Feb 15th - Battle of Cape St Vincent
Feb 18th - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
Feb 19th - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
Feb 21st - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
Feb 22nd - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
Feb 25th - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain
Feb 26th - Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
Mar 4th - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
Mar 13th - Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
Mar 28th - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
Apr 17th - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America.
Apr 18th - France & Austria signs cease fire
May 10th - 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
May 12th - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
Jun 2nd - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
Jun 6th - Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
Jun 26th - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
Jul 8th - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
Jul 10th - 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
Jul 25th - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
Aug 3rd - Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
Aug 16th - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
Sep 1st - 2nd National Meeting in Hague
Sep 20th - US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
Oct 11th - Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): English navy defeats Dutch fleet
Oct 17th - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
Oct 21st - US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
Oct 22nd - Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 56 of 56

Jan 4th - Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)
Jan 10th - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
Jan 12th - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
Jan 22nd - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
Jan 30th - Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Jan 31st - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
Feb 6th - Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs
Feb 15th - Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)
Feb 22nd - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
Feb 24th - Samuel Lover, composer
Feb 28th - Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
Feb 28th - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
Mar 7th - Karl Schwencke, composer
Mar 22nd - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
Mar 24th - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
Mar 25th - John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
Mar 27th - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)
Apr 10th - Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
Apr 14th - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
Apr 17th - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor
Apr 18th - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France
Apr 30th - Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra
May 6th - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
May 12th - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
May 18th - Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)
May 19th - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
May 30th - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
Jun 24th - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
Jul 10th - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)
Jul 17th - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
Jul 18th - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
Jul 19th - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
Jul 20th - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
Jul 21st - Franz Schoberlechner, composer
Jul 25th - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
Jul 29th - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
Aug 5th - Friedrich August Kummer, composer
Aug 9th - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley (Aug 30th) Aug 30th - Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein), (d. 1851)
Sep 6th - Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)
Sep 16th - Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
Oct 3rd - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
Oct 4th - J Gotthelf, writer
Oct 13th - William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
Oct 23rd - John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)
Nov 4th - Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
Nov 7th - Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1876
Nov 14th - Charles Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology)
Nov 23rd - Gabor Matray, composer
Nov 29th - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer
Dec 3rd - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
Dec 11th - Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
Dec 13th - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
Dec 17th - Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
Dec 19th - Josef Theodor Krov, composer
Dec 26th - Hans Skramstad, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

May 5th - Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 11th - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
Jan 13th - Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81
Jan 30th - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
Feb 8th - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81
Feb 11th - Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83
Feb 22nd - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
Feb 27th - Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61
Mar 1st - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
Mar 2nd - Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
Mar 19th - Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
Mar 26th - James Hutton, geologist, dies
Apr 3rd - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66
Apr 12th - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71
May 17th - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
May 25th - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
May 27th - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
May 30th - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
Jun 17th - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
Jul 9th - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
Jul 11th - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
Jul 29th - Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48
Aug 3rd - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
Aug 12th - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73
Aug 22nd - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
Sep 10th - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
Sep 18th - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
Sep 23rd - Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57
Oct 9th - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
Oct 10th - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
Oct 12th - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84
Nov 16th - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) Reigns 1786-97
Nov 18th - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
Nov 29th - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
Dec 1st - Oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71
Dec 11th - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
Dec 22nd - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74
Dec 26th - John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72