In the year 1797, John Hetherington causes a riot in London by wearing his newly invented top hat in public for the first time (Jan 15), Trinidad is invaded by the British (Feb 18), the last invasion of Great Britain begins (Feb 22), John Adams is sworn as the second U.S. president (Mar 4), Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz (de Tenerife) (Jul 24), Frederick William becomes King of Prussia (Nov 16) - and all these fine people were born:
1797-0101 Christopher Jacob Boström* teacher/ philosopher - Piteå, Sweden (1866/69).
1797-0101 Robert Crittenden* attorney/ politician - Versailles, KY USA (1834/37)
1797-0101 William Greene* lieutenant governor - Warwick, RI USA (1883/86)
1797-0131 Franz Peter Schubert* pianist/composer – Vienna, Archduchy of Austria (1828/31)
1797-0215 Henry E. Steinway* German-American piano maker/ founder of Steinway& Sons - Wolfshagen im Harz, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1871/73)
1797-0224 Samuel Lover* songwriter/ novelist/portrait painter - Dublin, Ireland (1868/71)
1797-0306 Gerrit Smith* social reformer/ politician/philanthropist - Utica, NY USA (1874/77)
1797-0326 Joseph Fielding* an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement - Honeydon, Bedfordshire, England (1863/65)
1797-0329 Charles I. du Pont* textile manufacturer/ politician/early member of the prominent du Pont family business - Charleston, SC USA (1869/71)
1797-0403 Ebenezer Childs* pioneer/builder/legislator - Barre, MA USA (1864/67)
1797-0405 Johann Fischbach* painter - Etsdorf-Haitzendorf (now Grafenegg), Austria (1871/74)
1797-0413 Stanislas Julien* sinologist - Orléans, France (1873/75)
1797-0423 Giuseppe Ferlini* soldier/treasure hunter/desecrator of pyramids - Bologna, Italy (1870/73)
1797-0427 Linus Yale Sr.* inventor/manufacturer of locks - Middletown, CT USA (1858/61)
1797-0611 Nicola Ricciotti* Italian revolutionary - Frosinone (1844/47) Historica
1797-0624 Johan Conrad van Hasselt* physician/botanist/ zoologist – Doesburg, Netherlands (1823/26)
1797-0810 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim* entomologist/governor of Viborg/ grandfather of his namesake, the 6th Finnish president - Askainen, Sweden-Finland (1854/57)
1797-0830 Mary Shelley* author (Frankenstein) - Somers Town, London, England (1851/53)
1797-0905 Christian Adolf Virgin* naval officer/circumnavigator/diplomat - Gothenburg, Sweden (1870/72)
1797-0925 Cornelis Kruseman* artist/ etcher/silhoeuttist – Amsterdam, Batavian Republic (1857/60)
1797-1003 Knud Ibsen* merchant/ father of Henrik Ibsen - Skien, Norway (1877/80)
1797-1007 Owen Chase* first mate of the whaler Essex/captain - Nantucket, MA USA (1869/71)
1797-1009 Richard Grainger* builder - Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1861/63)
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1797-1016 James Brudenell* “Lord Cardigan”/army officer - Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, England (1869/70)
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1797-1026 Giuditta Pasta* opera singer – Saronno, Italy (1865/67)
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1797-1113 Niklas Westring* customs officer/entomologist/arachnologist - Gothenburg, Sweden (1882/84)
1797-1120 Mary Buckland* palaeontologist/marine biologist/scientific illustrator - Abingdon-on-Thames, Berkshire, England (1857/60)
1797-1129 Gaetano Donizetti* composer of operas – Bergamo, Lombardy (1848/50)
1797-1203 Margaretta Morris* entomologist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1867/69)
1797-1203 Andrew Smith* surgeon/ ethnologist/zoologist - Hawick, Roxburghshire, England (1872/74)
1797-1204 George Tupou I* the first King of modern Tonga - Kahoua, Tonga, Polynesia (1893/95)
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1797-1213 Heinrich Heine* poet/ writer/literary critic - Düsseldorf, Duchy of Berg, Holy Roman Empire (1856/58)
1797-1214 Emil Huschke* German anatomist/embryologist - Weimar (1858/60)
1797-1229 François Leuret* anatomist/psychiatrist - Nancy, Kingdom of France (1851/53)
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