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Calendar overview 1797
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| 1797 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1245/46 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1789/90 (10/11 September) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1202/03 (beginning of the year April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2340/41 (Southern Buddhism); 2339/40 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 74th (75th) cycle
Year of the Fire Serpent丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Dragon丙辰) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1159/60 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4130/31 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| French Revolutionary Calendar | Year V./VI. of the Republic (21/22 September) |
| Iranian calendar | 1175/76 |
| Islamic calendar | 1211/12 (New Year June 25th/26th) |
| Jewish calendar | 5557/58 (September 20/21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1513/14 (September 10/11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 972/973 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2107/08 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2108/09 (October turn of the year) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1853/54 (April) |
events
politics and world affairs
Europe
- January 7: The Italian tricolor is proposed as a national symbol at a Cispadanian congress in Reggio nell'Emilia .
- January 14: In the Battle of Rivoli , the French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte prevail against the Austrian corps under Joseph Alvinczy von Berberek , which had come to relieve Mantua . The besieged therefore capitulate later and the way to the march on Vienna is free for the French.
- February 2: In Mantua, the surrounded Austrian troops under the command of Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser surrender to the French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte during the First Coalition War .
- February 14: Great Britain . Admiral Sir John Jervis and Commodore Horatio Nelson defeat the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent .
- February 19: Napoleon Bonaparte enforces the Treaty of Tolentino with Pope Pius VI with his troops. , which means that the Papal States would cede territory to France .
- February 22: The last invasion of Great Britain takes place near Fishguard in Wales during the First Coalition War . 1,400 French soldiers, who had arrived on four warships, feasted on the alcohol they had captured and became unable to fight as a result.
- March 10: After the Italian campaign , Napoleon Bonaparte and his troops turned to Austria, the enemy of the First Coalition War, and began invading enemy territory on the Tagliamento River .
- April 7: In the First Coalition War, Austria concludes an armistice with Napoleon Bonaparte after his victorious campaign in Italy in Leoben .
- April 17: Pasque Veronesi begins , she is crushed on April 25.
- April 18: The agreed preliminary peace of Leoben with France includes Austria 's renunciation of the Duchy of Milan , which will be integrated into the newly emerging Cisalpine Republic . Napoleon Bonaparte 's successful campaign in Italy ends with the Peace of Campo Formio on October 17th.
- April/May: Spithead and Nore mutinies
- 12 May: The last Doge of Venice , Ludovico Manin , abdicates and the lagoon city's Great Council holds its final session. Napoleon Bonaparte's troops, who invaded the Republic of Venice , are on the mainland in front of the city . The era of the Serenissima is coming to an end, Venice later becomes Austrian property in the Peace of Campo Formio . With the end of the Republic of Venice and the beginning of French rule, the beginning of the year on January 1st was adopted for Venice instead of the beginning of the year on March 1st More Veneto .
- May 27: In the time of the French Revolution , the agitator François Noël Babeuf and the revolutionary Augustin Alexandre Darthé are executed in Vendôme . A newly formed court the day before found both Board critics guilty of conspiracy and preparation for an insurrection and sentenced them to death .
- June 4: The Libro d'Oro is burned in Venice after French revolutionary troops have entered. For centuries, this Golden Book reserved participation in the “ Great Council ” of the city to the registered noble patrician families .
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- June 14: Under French pressure, the Ligurian Republic is proclaimed in Genoa , replacing the aristocratically governed city republic .
- June 29: The Cisalpine Republic in northern Italy is proclaimed by Napoleon Bonaparte .
- September 4: The coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor V gives France a radical republican government and a renewed climate of terror.
- October 11: During the First Coalition War , there is a naval battle at Camperduin off the Dutch coast . A Dutch squadron of sixteen ships -of-the-line is defeated by a British formation of about the same size. This puts a damper on French invasion plans in England .
- October 17: Napoleon Bonaparte dictates the Peace of Campo Formio , ending the First Coalition War. Emperor Franz II Joseph accepts - kept secret - the Rhine as France's eastern border and receives Dalmatia .
- November 4th: After the Peace of Campo Formio , France incorporates the ceded imperial territory on the left bank of the Rhine administratively. The Peace of Lunéville later confirms the annexation .
- November 16: Friedrich Wilhelm III. becomes King of Prussia after the death of his father .
- November 19: Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the Republic of Ancona .
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- December 9: The Rastatt Congress , at which the resolutions of the Peace of Campo Formio are to be implemented, begins.
- December 28: In the Zerbst division after the childless death of Prince Friedrich August , the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst is divided among the three still existing lines of Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg . The city of Zerbst , together with the northern parts of Anhalt-Zerbst, is passed to the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau under Prince Leopold III. affiliated with Friedrich Franz . The middle part around Roßlau comes to the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen and the eastern offices of Coswig (Koswig) and Mühlingen to the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg. The dominion of Jever falls to Russia .
- December 30: Troops of the French Republic enter Mainz .
America / Caribbean
- February 20: Great Britain resettles 2,248 surviving " Black Caribs " from their original place of deportation, the Caribbean island of Baliceaux near St. Vincent , to the island of Roatan off the Honduran coast.
- March: The XYZ Affair begins, which will lead to the quasi-war between France and the USA.
- March 4: Inauguration of John Adams as 2nd US President . He replaces George Washington , who has stood down after two terms.
Africa
- Madagascar : Antananarivo becomes the capital of the Merina tribe.
business
- February 26: The Bank of England is relieved of its obligation to exchange its banknotes for gold; Beginning of the bank restriction (until 1821)
- March 28: The American Nathaniel Briggs receives the first patent for a washing machine . His invention resembles a washboard with a crank.
- May 21: In France , all circulating assignats (French Revolution paper money) are declared invalid.
- 3 October: The first German North Sea resort is built on Norderney .
science and technology
- October 22: André-Jacques Garnerin parachuted from a balloon over Paris . His landing at Parc Monceau is the first parachute jump from a balloon in Europe.
- December 10: Wilhelm Herschel discovers the galaxies NGC 4319 and NGC 4386 in the constellation Draco .
- December 12: Wilhelm Herschel discovers the galaxy NGC 6217 in the constellation Ursa Minor .
- December 20: Wilhelm Herschel discovers the galaxy NGC 5452 in the constellation Ursa Minor .
- Richard Trevithick builds his first model steam car
- Immanuel Kant : The Metaphysics of Morals , divided into two parts
- Metaphysical foundations of the doctrine of law
- Metaphysical foundations of the doctrine of virtue
- Immanuel Kant: About a supposed right to lie out of philanthropy
Culture
- March 13: The Opéra-comique Médée by Luigi Cherubini to the libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman is premiered at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris . The literary model is the tragedy Medea by Euripides .
- March 15: Premiere of Henri Montan Berton 's opera Ponce de Léon at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- April 20: The École spéciale de peinture, de sculpture et d'architecture , later the École des Beaux-Arts , is founded in Paris.
- November 10: Premiere of the opera Le Dénouement inattendu by Henri Montan Berton at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- 1797 is considered the year of ballads in classical music : Friedrich Schiller wrote, among other things, The Diver , The Glove , The Cranes of Ibycus , The Ring of Polycrates and The Walk to the Iron Hammer . Goethe wrote The Treasure Hunter , The Sorcerer's Apprentice , The Bride of Corinth , Legend , and between June 6 and 9 The God and the Bayadere .
- Józef Wybicki writes Mazurek Dąbrowskiego ( Poland is not lost yet ), today's national anthem of Poland .
disasters
- February 4th, Quito /Ecuador. A severe earthquake claims around 40,000 lives.
- The city of Cumaná in present-day Venezuela is destroyed by an earthquake.
Born
January February
- January 2: Hugh S. Legaré , American politician (died 1843)
- January 4 Wilhelm Beer , German banker and astronomer (died 1850)
- January 5: Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein , Prussian general (died 1885)
- January 6: Edward Turner Bennett , English zoologist and writer (died 1836)
- January 7: Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga , Mexican military and interim President of Mexico (d. 1849)
- January 9: Ferdinand von Wrangel , Russian naval officer and geographer (died 1870)
- January 10: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , German writer († 1848)
- January 10 Karl August Koberstein , German literary historian (died 1870)
- January 11: Carl Rottmann , German landscape painter (died 1850)
- January 12: George Evans , American politician (died 1867)
- January 16: Richard Barnes Mason , American officer and military governor in California (d. 1850)
- January 22: Maria Leopoldine of Austria , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Portugal and Empress of Brazil († 1826)
- January 26: Therese von Jacob , German writer, folksong researcher and Slavist († 1870)
- January 27 Francesco Ambrosoli , Italian educator, philologist and writer (died 1868)
- January 27: Narcisse Girard , French conductor (died 1860)
- January 30: Edwin Vose Sumner , American officer (d. 1863)
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Schubert's birthplace on Himmelpfortgrund near Vienna
- January 31: Franz Schubert , Austrian composer († 1828)
- February 1: Leopold Immanuel Rückert , Protestant theologian († 1871)
- February 6: Joseph von Radowitz , Prussian general, diplomat and politician (died 1853)
- February 11 Connop Thirlwall , British clergyman and writer (died 1875)
- February 18: John Bell , American politician and secretary of war (d. 1869)
- February 18: Otto von der Groeben , Prussian manor owner and politician († 1856)
- February 20: Johann Jakob Wolfensberger , Swiss painter († 1850)
- February 22: Heinrich Steinweg , piano maker († 1871)
- February 25: Johann Wilhelm Neumann , German jurist, local politician and historian († 1870)
- February 27 Wilhelm Meinhold , German writer and pastor (died 1851)
- February 28: John Henderson , American politician (died 1857)
- February 28: Frederick of Orange-Nassau , son of Wilhelm I and Wilhelmine Luise of Prussia († 1881)
March April
- March 1: Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz , Boer entrepreneur and Voortrekker leader (d. 1838)
- March 1: Lodewijk Gerard Visscher , Dutch literary scholar and historian († 1859)
- March 3: Gotthilf Hagen , German engineer (died 1884)
- March 4: Charles Jackson , American politician (died 1876)
- March 6: Johann Heinssen , German organ builder († 1849)
- March 8: Maximilien Simon , French composer and civil servant (d. 1861)
- March 10: George Julius Scrope , English geologist (died 1876)
- March 14: Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk , Dutch physician (d. 1862)
- March 19: Wilhelm von Radziwill , Prussian general (died 1870)
- March 22: Ferdinand von Stelzhammer , Austrian jurist († 1858)
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- March 22: Wilhelm I , King of Prussia and German Emperor († 1888)
- March 24: Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim , royal Prussian chamberlain and patron of the cathedral († 1859)
- March 27: Henry LXXII. , Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf († 1853)
- March 27: Alfred de Vigny , French writer (died 1863)
- March 30: Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick , German Lord Mayor of Berlin († 1882)
- April 2nd: Johann Siegmund Mann jr. , Lübeck merchant and politician († 1863)
- April 2: Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen , officer and later military governor of Trieste († 1870)
- April 3: Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier , Belgian botanist (d. 1878)
- April 5: Carl Devrient , German theater actor (died 1872)
- April 7 Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux , French model maker and anatomist (d. 1880)
- April 9: Carl Heyer , forest practitioner, teacher and scientist († 1856)
- April 9: Per Ulrik Kernell , Swedish Romantic writer (died 1824)
- April 16: Adolphe Thiers , French statesman and historian (died 1877)
- April 20: Heinrich von Wittgenstein , German businessman and politician († 1869)
- April 23: Ernst Ferdinand Oehme , German Romantic painter († 1855)
- April 23: Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille , French physician and physicist (d. 1869)
- April 27: Victor Audouin , French naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist (died 1841)
- April 29: Petrus Johannes Izaak de Fremery , Dutch physician and chemist (d. 1855)
May June
- May 2: Heinrich Anz , German civil servant and politician (died 1865)
- May 2: Albert Dietrich Schadow , German master builder and architect (died 1869)
- May 3: Heinrich Berghaus , German cartographer (died 1884)
- 8 May: John Septimus Roe , first Surveyor-General of Western Australia (d. 1878)
- May 12: Johann Hermann Kufferath , German composer (died 1864)
- May 16 August Wissowa , German classical scholar and educator († 1868)
- May 17 Mariane Bargiel , German pianist, singer and piano teacher († 1872)
- May 18: Friedrich August II , King of Saxony († 1854)
- May 21: Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff , German botanist and university professor († 1854)
- May 24: Richard van Rees , Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1875)
- May 25 Hippolyte Auger , French novelist and playwright (died 1881)
- May 30: Carl Friedrich Naumann , German geologist and crystallographer (died 1873)
- May 30: Johann Christian Lobe , German composer and music theorist († 1881)
- June 17 Alexandre Vinet , Swiss theologian and literary historian († 1847)
- June 18: Hamilton Hume , Australian explorer († 1873)
- June 19: Paul Julius Arter , Swiss draftsman and etcher († 1839)
- June 20: Karolina Gerhardinger , religious sister and congregation founder († 1879)
- June 25: Paul Wilhelm , duke of Württemberg, naturalist and explorer († 1860)
July August
- July 15: Eduard Vieweg , German publisher (died 1869)
- July 16: Friedrich von Reventlou , Schleswig-Holstein statesman († 1874)
- July 17: Paul Delaroche , French painter (died 1856)
- July 17: Honor God Grünler , German painter (died 1881)
- July 18: Eduard Harkort , German mining engineer and officer (d. 1836)
- July 20 – Auguste Stourm , French politician, general manager of the post office (died 1865)
- July 23: Charles Jules Labarte , French art historian (died 1880)
- July 28: Christian Ludvig Tillisch , Danish government official (d. 1844)
- July 29 Daniel Drew , American businessman (died 1879)
- July 29: Pedro José Valenzuela Jáuregui , head of state in the province of Guatemala of the Central American Confederation († 1865)
- August 1: Franz Härter , Alsatian pastor († 1874)
- August 10 Lorenzo Arrazola García , Spanish legal scholar and politician († 1873)
- August 10: Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini , German botanist (died 1848)
- August 12: Manuel Aguilar Chacón , President of Costa Rica (died 1845)
- August 15: Hans Ferdinand Maßmann , German educator (died 1874)
- August 23: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant , French mathematician and physicist (d. 1886)
- August 28: Franz Duschek , Minister of Finance during the Hungarian Revolution († 1873)
- August 28: Karl Otfried Müller , German classical scholar and archaeologist († 1840)
- August 30: Heinrich Marr , German actor (died 1871)
- August 30: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley née Godwin English novelist (d. 1851)
- August 31: Philipp Graf von Brunnow , Russian diplomat († 1875)
- August 31: Ramón Castilla , President of Peru (died 1867)
- August 31: James Ferguson , Scottish engineer and astronomer (d. 1867)
September October
- September 10: Carl Gustav Mosander , Swedish chemist and surgeon (d. 1858)
- September 10: Franz Krüger , German painter and lithographer (died 1857)
- September 16: Anthony Panizzi , Italian librarian (died 1879)
- September 17: Heinrich Kuhl , German zoologist († 1821)
- September 19: Bernhard Sökeland , philologist and historian († 1845)
- September 28: Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke , Russian naval officer and explorer († 1882)
- September 29: Melchior Schlumpf , Swiss Jesuit and educator († 1880)
- 3 October: Leopold II , Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1870)
- October 3 Hopkins L. Turney , American politician (d. 1857)
- October 4: Jeremias Gotthelf , Swiss writer (died 1854)
- October 5: John Gardner Wilkinson , British Egyptologist (died 1875)
- October 6: Joseph Othmar von Rauscher , Archbishop of Vienna († 1875)
- October 8: Félix Neff , Swiss evangelical itinerant preacher († 1829)
- October 9: Philippe Suchard , Swiss chocolate producer (d. 1884)
- October 13: George Anson , British general (died 1857)
- October 14: Félix Duban , French architect (died 1870)
- October 14: Ida Pfeiffer , Austrian explorer and travel writer († 1858)
- October 15 Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse , German classicist and linguist († 1855)
- October 16: Alfred von Auerswald , Prussian General Landscape Director and Minister of the Interior († 1870)
- October 16: James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan , British general in the Crimean War (d. 1868)
- October 20: José Bernardo Escobar , President of Guatemala (died 1849)
- October 22 – Jakob Adam , Swiss politician and jurist († 1865)
- October 23: Jan Jacob Rochussen , governor of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1871)
- October 26: Giuditta Pasta , Italian opera singer († 1865)
- October 29: Johann Baptist Bekk , Baden jurist and statesman († 1855)
- October 30: Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg , wife of Archduke Charles of Austria († 1829)
November December
- November 6: Gabriel Andral , French physician (died 1876)
- November 14 Charles Lyell , British geologist (died 1875)
- November 29: Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (d. 1848)
- December 2: Carl von Prittwitz , Russian cavalry general (died 1881)
- 2 December: Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym , Archduchess of Austria (d. 1817)
- December 5: Ludwig Franz von Breitenbauch , Prussian chamberlain, district administrator and member of the state parliament († 1881)
- December 8: Bertram Pfeiffer , German politician (died 1872)
- December 12: Lucy Anderson , English pianist (died 1878)
- December 13: Heinrich Heine , German poet and journalist (died 1856)
- December 15: Johann Konrad Irmischer , German Protestant theologian and librarian († 1857)
- December 17: Joseph Henry , American scientist and professor († 1878)
- December 23: Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu , French botanist (d. 1853)
- December 27: Manuela Sáenz , South American freedom fighter († 1856)
- December 29: Simon Leborne , French composer and music teacher (d. 1866)
Exact date of birth unknown
- William Bridges Adams , British publicist, railway designer and entrepreneur (died 1872)
- Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar , French mathematician (died 1862)
- Gustaf Andersson , Swedish organ builder and musician (died 1872)
- Mangas Coloradas , chief of the Mimbreno-Apache (died 1863)
- Hiroshige , Japanese color woodblock print artist (died 1858)
- Toussaint Poisson , French composer and music teacher (died 1861)
- Charlotte Sager , German wax artist († 1872)
Died
First quarter
- January 7: Carl Anton von Barth , Mayor of Munich and Chancellor of the Country (b. 1758)
- January 11: Francis Lightfoot Lee , signer of the US Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
- January 13: Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
- January 14: Johann Samuel Diterich , German hymn writer (b. 1721)
- January 15: Johan Magnus Lannerstjerna , Swedish writer and librettist (born 1758)
- January 25: Franz Anton Hillebrandt , Austrian architect (b. 1719)
- January 30: Antoni Barceló , Mallorcan navigator and corsair in the service of the Spanish Crown (b. 1717)
- January 30: Johann Abraham Sixt , German composer (b. 1757)
- February 1: James Duane , New York State delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1733)
- February 1: Hans Strøm , Norwegian naturalist (b. 1726)
- February 8: Johann Friedrich Doles , German composer and Thomaskantor (born 1715)
The manor house known as Schloss Münchhausen , in which Hieronymus Münchhausen was born and in which he died
- February 22: Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen , German nobleman and storyteller, ( Liar Baron ) (b. 1720)
- February 23: Gustav Ludwig von der Marwitz , Prussian general (b. 1730)
- February 26: William Cadogan , English physician (b. 1711)
- March 2: Horace Walpole , British writer, politician and artist (b. 1717)
- March 3: Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec , French navigator and explorer (b. 1734)
- March 5: Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi , Prussian major general (b. 1716)
- March 5: Johann Philipp Julius Rudolph , German physician and university teacher (b. 1729)
- March 9: Vasily Alexeyevich Pashkevich , Russian composer (b. c. 1742)
- March 9: Ivan Grigoryevich Chernyshev , Russian diplomat (b. 1726)
- March 13: Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg , German diplomat, foreign court official (b. 1721)
- March 18: Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter , German writer (b. 1746)
- March 19: Philip Hayes , English composer (b. 1738)
- March 19: Sophie von Kühn , fiancé of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (b. 1782)
- March 23: Marcus Anton Wittola , Austrian theologian and minister (b. 1736)
- March 26: James Hutton , Scottish naturalist and geologist (b. 1726)
- March 30: Franz Aumann , Austrian composer (b. 1728)
- March 31: Benjamin von Amaudruz , Prussian lieutenant general (b. 1735)
- March 31: Olaudah Equiano , Nigerian slave and writer (b. 1745)
Second quarter
- April 1: Johann Peter Snell , German Protestant theologian (b. 1720)
- April 7: Henricus Johannes Arntzenius , Dutch legal scholar (b. 1734)
- 10 April: Joseph Canto d'Irles , Austrian lieutenant field marshal of Scottish descent (b. 1731)
- April 12: Johann Georg Bach , son of Johann Ernst Bach (b. 1751)
- April 13: Jakob von Bernuth , German civil servant (b. 1729)
- April 15: Pedro Melo de Portugal y Villena , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of the Río de la Plata (b. 1733)
- April 23: Giovanni Battista Andreoni , Italian opera singer (b. 1720)
- May 1: Franz Anton von Hartig , Austrian diplomat, historian, poet and geographer (b. 1758)
- May 10: Henry XXVIII. Reuss zu Ebersdorf , important member of the Moravian Church (* 1726)
- May 25: Andrew Elliot , last British Governor of the Province of New York (b. 1728)
- May 27: Johann Friedrich Albinus , German civil servant (b. c. 1748)
- May 27: François Noël Babeuf , French agitator and journalist (b. 1760)
- May 27: Augustin Alexandre Darthé , French revolutionary (b. 1769)
- May 29: Karl Joseph Bouginé , German theologian and teacher (born 1735)
- June 13: Christian Lofthuus , Norwegian peasant leader (b. 1750)
- June 17: Aga Mohammed Khan , Shah of Persia (b. 1742)
- June 21: Andreas Peter von Bernstorff , Foreign Minister of the Danish State (b. 1735)
- June 22: Justus Christian Ludwig von Schellwitz , German legal scholar (b. 1735)
- June 28: Bernhard Rode , German painter (b. 1725)
- June 30: Christian Frederik Hagerup , Norwegian vicar (b. 1731)
Third quarter
- July 1: Johann Friedrich Flattich , Protestant pastor and educator (b. 1713)
- July 1: Johann Christian Wentzinger , sculptor, painter and architect (b. 1710)
- July 8: François Louis de Bons , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher (b. 1723)
- July 9: Edmund Burke , writer, political philosopher and politician (b. 1729)
- July 24: Johann Jacobé , Austrian engraver (b. 1733)
- August 3: Jeffrey Amherst , British general (b. 1717)
- August 6: Johann Matthias von Bernuth , German civil servant (b. 1716)
- August 8: Genki , Japanese painter (b. 1747)
- August 8: Franz Alexander von Kleist , poet (b. 1769)
- August 12: Gotthelf Greiner , German glassmaker and founder of porcelain manufacture in Thuringia (b. 1732)
- August 21: Benedict Stattler , German Catholic theologian, educator and philosopher (b. 1728)
- August 22: Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
- August 25: Thomas Chittenden , American politician, 1st Governor of Vermont (b. 1730)
- August 25: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray , French politician (b. 1760)
- August 28: Joseph Wright of Derby , British painter (b. 1734)
- September 10: Mary Wollstonecraft , English novelist and suffragette (b. 1759)
- September 13 Georg Franz Wiesner , German Catholic theologian and university teacher in Würzburg (b. 1731)
- 19 September: Lazare Hoche , French Revolutionary-era general (b. 1768)
- September 22: Christiane Becker-Neumann , German actress (b. 1778)
- September 28: Samuel Luther von Geret , German Protestant theologian, jurist and politician (b. 1730)
- September 28: Gunning Bedford , American politician (b. 1742)
- September 30 Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer (born 1750), German historian and legal scholar
Fourth Quarter
- October 10: Carter Braxton , one of the Founding Fathers of the USA (b. 1736)
- October 15: Bernd Jakob von Arnim , Prussian official and numismatist (b. 1719)
- October 21: Philipp August Kulenkamp , German jurist (b. 1710)
- October 29: Christoph Ludwig Kämmerer , German naturalist (b. 1755)
- 14 November: Januarius Zick , German Baroque painter and architect (b. 1730)
- November 16: Johann August von Arnim , Prussian district administrator (b. 1723)
Friedrich Wilhelm II, painting by Johann Christoph Frisch 1797
- 16 November: Friedrich Wilhelm II , Prussian King (b. 1744)
- November 26: Andrew Adams , American lawyer, jurist and politician (b. 1736)
- November 27: Johann Baptist Wendling , German composer and flautist (b. 1723)
- November 27: Carl Christian Agthe , German composer and organist (b. 1762)
- 1 December: Oliver Wolcott , delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress (b. 1726)
- December 11: Emanuel Witz , Swiss painter (b. 1717)
- December 13: Louis Legendre , French politician (b. 1752)
- December 17: Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet , French politician and general (b. 1757)
- 23 December: Friedrich Eugen , Duke of Württemberg (b. 1732)
Exact date of death unknown
- Juan Manuel Olivares , Venezuelan composer (b. c. 1760)
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