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| yp2=1795
| yp3=1796
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| ya2=1799
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1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
- Octorber 4 - Gary L. Vess English Comic Book Writer (d. ???? )
- January 10 - Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff , German writer (d. 1848 )
- January 31 - Franz Schubert , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828 )
- February 15 - Henry Engelhard Steinway , German-American piano manufacturer (d. 1817 )
- March 22 - Emperor Wilhelm I Of Germany (d. 1888 )
- March 27 - Alfred De Vigny , French author (d. 1863 )
- May 6 - Joseph Brackett , American religious leader and composer (d. 1882 )
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II Of Saxony , (d. 1854 )
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873 )
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , English writer (d. 1851 )
- October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (d. 1870 )
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell , British geologist (d. 1875 )
- November 29 - Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (d. 1848 )
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine , German poet (d. 1856 )
- December 17 - Joseph Henry , American scientist (d. 1878 )
Deaths
- January 13 - Elisabeth Christine Von Braunschweig-Bevern , queen of Frederick II Of Prussia (b. 1715 )
- February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne , French composer (b. 1713 )
- February 22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr Von Münchhausen , German officer and adventurer (b. 1720 )
- March 2 - Horace Walpole , English politician and writer (b. 1717 )
- March 26 - James Hutton , Scottish geologist (b. 1726 )
- March 31 - Olaudah Equiano Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist b. 1745 )
- May 17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine , French dramatist (b. 1719 )
- May 25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard De Walden , British field marshal (b. 1719 )
- May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf , French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760 )
- May 27 - Augustin Alexandre Darthé , French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1769 )
- July 9 - Edmund Burke , Irish philosopher (b. 1723 )
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst , British military commander (b. 1717 )
- August 22 - Dagobert Sigmund Von Wurmser , Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724 )
- October 9 - Vilna Gaon , Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720 )
- November 14 - Ivan Shuvalov , founder of the Moscow University (b. 1727 )
- November 16 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744 )
- November 18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon De Ladebat , French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719 )
- November 29 - Samuel Langdon , American President of Harvard University (b. 1723 )
- December 11 - Richard Brocklesby , English physician (b. 1722
Fiction
The events of happen in this year.
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