• Source: 1797 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1797 in Great Britain.




Incumbents


Monarch – George III
Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)
Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville




Events


3 January – three of the stones making up Stonehenge fall due to heavy frosts.
15 January – London haberdasher John Hetherington wears the first top hat in public and attracts a large crowd of onlookers. He is later fined £50 for causing public nuisance.
14 February – Battle of Cape St Vincent: The Royal Navy under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats a larger Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. On 23 May, Jervis is made Earl of St Vincent, and Horatio Nelson made a Knight of the Bath, for their part in the victory.
18 February – Spanish Governor José María Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad and Tobago to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.
22 February – the last invasion of Britain begins: French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.
24 February – Tate surrenders at Fishguard.
26 February – start of "restriction period" during which, by Government order, Bank of England notes are inconvertible to gold. The Bank issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes (the former denomination remains in issue until 11 March 1988).
16 April–30 June – Spithead and Nore mutinies: two mutinies in the Royal Navy spark fears of a revolution.
17 April – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere and one of the worst defeats of the navy for years to come.
April – prisoners taken in the French Revolutionary Wars are first moved to the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, located at Norman Cross in Huntingdonshire.
30 May – Abolitionist William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner in Bath about six weeks after their first meeting.
July – Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 imposed; it is repealed the following year.
24 July – Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz, causing the loss of his right arm.
August – The Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey in Somerset to investigate the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.
29 August – Massacre of Tranent: British troops attack protestors against enforced recruitment into the militia at Tranent in Scotland, killing 12.
October – Coleridge composes the poem Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream, writing down only a fragment of it on waking.
11 October – Battle of Camperdown: Royal Navy defeats the fleet of the Batavian Republic off the coast of Holland.
18 October – Treaty of Campo Formio ends the First Coalition, leaving Britain fighting alone against France.
November – 1797 Rugby School rebellion: The pupils at Rugby School rebel against the headmaster, Henry Ingles, after he decrees that the damage to a tradesman's windows should be paid for by the students.
16 November (or 23 November?) – Royal Navy frigate HMS Tribune (1796) is wrecked on the approaches to Halifax, Nova Scotia; of the 240 on board, all but 12 are lost.
Undated – "Cartwheel" twopence coins pressed, for the only time, at Boulton and Watt's Soho Mint in copper.




= Ongoing

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Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808.
French Revolutionary Wars, First Coalition.




Publications


Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds vol. 1.




Births






Deaths


21 February – John Parkhurst, lexicographer (born 1728)
2 March – Horace Walpole, politician and writer (born 1717)
6 March – William Hodges, landscape painter (born 1744)
7 March – John Gabriel Stedman, colonial soldier and author (born 1744 in the Netherlands)
19 March – Philip Hayes, composer, organist, singer and conductor (born 1738)
26 March – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (born 1726)
31 March – Olaudah Equiano, ex-slave and slavery abolitionist (born 1745 in Nigeria)
7 April – William Mason, cleric, poet, editor and gardener (born 1724)
29 April – Elizabeth Ryves, Irish-born writer (born 1750)
7 May – Jedediah Strutt, cotton spinner (born 1726)
25 May – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (born 1719)
28 June – George Keate, poet (born 1729)
30 June – Richard Parker, sailor and mutineer, executed (born 1767)
9 July – Edmund Burke, Irish-born philosopher (born 1723)
25 July – killed at Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Richard Bowen, Royal Navy officer (born 1761)
George Thorp, Royal Navy officer (born 1777)
29 July – John Weatherhead, Royal Navy officer, died of wounds received at Battle of Santa Cruz (born 1775)
3 August – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, field-marshal and Commander-in-Chief (born 1717)
6 August – James Pettit Andrews, historian and antiquary (born 1737)
18 August – Josiah Spode, potter (born 1733)
29 August – Joseph Wright of Derby, painter (born 1734)
4 September – Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, cleric (born 1710)
10 September – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist writer and philosopher (born 1759)
21 September – Hugh Pigot, Royal Navy officer, murdered (born 1769)
25 September – John Baughan, carpenter, thief and transportee to Australia (born 1754)
29 September – George Raper, nature artist (born 1769)
4 October – Anthony Keck, architect (born 1726)
20 October – William Cooke, cleric and academic (born 1711)
11 December – Richard Brocklesby, physician (born 1722)
14 December – John Robert Cozens, romantic watercolour landscape painter and draughtsman, insane (born 1752)
26 December – John Wilkes, radical politician and journalist (born 1725)
30 December – David Martin, Scottish portrait painter and engraver (born 1737)
Thomas Kirk, painter, illustrator and engraver, consumption (born 1765)




See also


1797 in Wales




References

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