Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1797. 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

The Italian campaign of 1796–1797 (Italian: Campagna d'Italia), also known as the First Italian Campaign, was a series of military operations in Italy...

Events from the year 1797 in Canada. Monarch: George III Parliament of Lower Canada: 2nd (starting January 24) Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd (starting...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1797. June 5 – Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock...

world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;...

and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. They were the first in an increasing series of outbreaks of maritime radicalism...

Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution...

Revolutionary armies, formed by a decree of the French Directory dated 29 September 1797 (8 vendémiaire Year VI) by merging the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and the Army...

Olaudah Equiano (/əˈlaʊdə/; c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (/ˈvæsə/), was a writer and abolitionist. According...

relates to the unlawful oaths. The Unlawful Oaths Acts 1797 and 1812 The Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 123) The Unlawful Oaths Act 1812 (52 Geo...

city as well as an amphibious assault on the port itself from June to July 1797. After the battle of Cape Saint Vincent the British fleet led by Lord Jervis...

Archimedes was launched at Sunderland in 1796 or 1797. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport...

the early years of the war with Revolutionary France and was launched in 1797. She almost immediately became caught up in the events of the mutiny at the...

legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1796 and 1797, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative...

Major-General George Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family. Anson was the second...

(1686–1691) Kingdom of Slavonia (1699–1868) Duchy of Milan (1706–1797) Duchy of Mantua (1706–1797) Kingdom of Naples (1707–1735) Kingdom of Sardinia (1707–1720)...

The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (14 February 1797) was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), as part of the French Revolutionary...

Baltimore's Fell's Point maritime community, and was launched on 7 September 1797. Constellation was one of the original six frigates whose construction the...

Edmund Burke (/bɜːrk/; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain....

Coalition) was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against the constitutional Kingdom of France and then the French...

Dirk, Count van Hogendorp (18 December 1797, Amsterdam – 18 March 1845, The Hague), son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, nephew of Dirk van Hogendorp,...

Sultan (1788–1797) Kamarullah, Sultan (1797–1826) Sultanate of Jailolo – British occupation 1799–1802 Muhammad Arif Bila, Sultan (1797–1806) Sultanate...

a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1797. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...

Events from the year 1797 in the United States. President: George Washington (no political party-Virginia) (until March 4) John Adams (F-Massachusetts)...

Events in the year 1797 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Ólafur Stefánsson April: A volcanic eruption occurs at Grímsvötn. 30 July:...

Cape Colony 1 March 1797 – Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz, Voortrekker leader, is born in the Graaff-Reinet District 21 June 1797 – Christoffel Brand, politician...

Quincy Adams in 1795, and the two began a tenuous courtship. They married in 1797 after being engaged for a year, beginning a marriage of disagreements and...

shipyard between November 1794 and March 1798, having been launched on 25 June 1797. She was named after the American scientist and politician Benjamin Franklin...

James Hutton FRSE ( /ˈhʌtən/; 3 June O.S. 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician...