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

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the Battle of Rivoli on 14 and 15 January 1797, the French Army of Italy led by Napoleon Bonaparte crushed the main Austrian army led by Jozsef Alvinczi...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

began in 1794 but was interrupted in 1795. She was finally laid down in 1797, and launched at Rochefort in 1800. On 22 November 1802, under Captain Claude...

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...

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...

William Bishop (1797 – 16 March 1871) nicknamed as the Bishop of Bond Street was a gun dealer on New Bond Street, London, who served as an agent for the...

The Panic of 1796–1797 was a series of downturns in credit markets in both Great Britain and the newly established United States in 1796 that led to broader...

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...

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

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

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

(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)...

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....

the second president of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1797, in the House of Representatives Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia...

The following lists events that have happened in 1797 in the Qajar dynasty, Iran. Monarch: Mohammad Khan Qajar (until June 17), Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar (starting...

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

during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, on 22–24 February 1797, is the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign force, and...