1797

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1760s  1770s  1780s  – 1790s –  1800s  1810s  1820s
Years:	1794 1795 1796 – 1797 – 1798 1799 1800

Events

• January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers.
• January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
• January 15 – London haberdasher James Hetherington wears the first top hat in public and attracts a large crowd of onlookers. He is later fined £50 for causing public nuisance
• February 14 – The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
• February 18 – Spanish Governor Chacon peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad and Tobago to a British naval force.
• February 22 – Attempted invasion of Britain at Fishguard in Wales by French forces
• February 26 – The Bank of England (national bank of Britain) issues the first one pound note (discontinued March 11 1988).
• March 4 – John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
• May 12 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the 1100 years of independence of the city. Last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, steps down.
• July 24 – Horatio Nelson is wounded at Tenerife, causing a loss of one arm.
• September 7 – Treaty of Campo Formio ends the War of the First Coalition.
• October 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.
• December 17 – Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon for French
• Large-scale mutinies in Royal Navy
• Joseph Haydn composes the music to "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," the tune of which also became the music to the German national anthem, "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit."

Births

• August 30 – Mary Shelley, British author of Frankenstein

Deaths

• September 10 – Mary Wollstonecraft, female philosopher (b. 1759)