See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 3 - The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli)
is signed at Algiers.
February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French
Revolution.
February 26 - The Bank of England (national bank of Britain) issues the first one pound note.
March 4 -
John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President
of the United States of America.
May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice ending the 1070 years
of independence of city.
October 21 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is
launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli (in 1805 the Tripoli peace treaty
was signed on Constitution's deck).
Births:
January 14 -
Still born van den Houten (twins) 2x.
January 31 -
Franz Schubert,Austrian pianist, composer.
February 15 -
Henry Engelhard Steinway - German-American piano manufacturer.
March 22 -
Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (+ 1888).
March 27 -
Alfred de Vigny, author.
May 18 -
Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (+ 1854).
July 20 - Sir
Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist.
August 30 -
Mary Wollstonecroft (later Mary Shelley).
November 14 - Sir
Charles Lyell, British geologist.
December 13 -
Heinrich Heine, poet.
Baptized:
October 25 -
Adriana Jacoba van den Houten.
December 30 -
Willemijntje van den Houten.
Deaths:
February 11 -
Antoine Dauvergne, composer.
March 26 -
James Hutton (geologist).
July 9 -
Edmund Burke, philosopher.
August 3 -
Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander.
November -
Frederick William II of Prussia.
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