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...

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...

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...

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing...

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...

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...

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...

Edmund Burke (/ˈbɜːrk/; 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

(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)...

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

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

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

home to Eliza on July 22 and assembling a first draft dated July 1797, on August 25, 1797, Hamilton published a pamphlet, later known as the Reynolds Pamphlet...

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...

The year 1797 in architecture involved some significant events. Ditherington Flax Mill, in Shrewsbury, England, is completed; by the end of the 20th century...

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...

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...

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...

Ǧâjâr; 1789–1925) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan (r. 1789–1797) of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe. The dynasty's effective...

Republic of Ragusa (1358-1808) emerged. The Republic of Venice, from 1420 to 1797 controlled a significant part of Dalmatia (see Venetian Dalmatia). In 1527...

present-day Italian Republic that existed for 1,100 years from 697 until 1797. Centered on the lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it...

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...

the Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian...