Events

• 14 January-15 January - Battle of Rivoli
  Battle of Rivoli
  The Battle of Rivoli was a key victory in the French campaign in Italy against Austria. Napoleon Bonaparte's 23,000 Frenchmen defeated an attack of 28,000 Austrians under Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi, ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the Siege of Mantua...
  
  , decisive French victory over Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
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• 19 February - Treaty of Tolentino
  Treaty of Tolentino
  The Treaty of Tolentino was signed after nine months of negotiations between France and the Papal States on February 19, 1797. It was part of the events following the invasion of Italy in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
   signed between France and the Papal States
  Papal States
  The Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...
  
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• 22 February - The Last invasion of Britain
  Last invasion of Britain
  The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, which took place between 22 February and 24 February 1797, was the most recent effort by a foreign force that was able to land on Britain, and thus is...
  
   begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard
  Fishguard
  Fishguard is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, with a population of 3,300 . The community of Fishguard and Goodwick had a population of 5043 at the 2001 census....
  
   in Wales
  Wales
  Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
  
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• 25 February - Tate surrenders at Fishguard.
• 17 April - Treaty of Leoben
  Treaty of Leoben
  The Treaty of Leoben was signed on 17 April 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte. It was a preliminary accord that contained many secret clauses. From these clauses, Austria would lose the Austrian Netherlands and Lombardy in exchange for the Venetian territories of Istria and Dalmatia...
  
  , preliminary accord between France and Austria.
• 18 April - Battle of Neuwied
  Battle of Neuwied (1797)
  The Battle of Neuwied was fought on April 18, 1797. It resulted in the victory of French under General Louis Lazare Hoche against Austrians under General Franz von Werneck...
  
  , French victory over Austria.
• 20 April - Battle of Diersheim
  Battle of Diersheim (1797)
  The Battle of Diersheim was fought on April 20, 1797, and resulted in a French victory under General Moreau against the Austrians under General Staray....
  
  , French victory over Austrian forces.
• 12 May - France conquers Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
  , ending the 1100 years of independence of the city.
• 17 October - Treaty of Campo Formio
  Treaty of Campo Formio
  The Treaty of Campo Formio was signed on 18 October 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of revolutionary France and the Austrian monarchy...
  
   signed between France and Austria.
• 17 December - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon
  Toulon
  Toulon is a town in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department in the former province of Provence....
  
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Births

• 27 March - Alfred de Vigny
  Alfred de Vigny
  Alfred Victor de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life:Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches into an aristocratic family...
  
  , poet
  Poet
  A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
  
  , playwright
  Playwright
  A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
  
  , and novelist (d.1863
  1863 in France
  See also:1862 in France,other events of 1863,1864 in France.----Events from the year 1863 in France.-Events:*15 January - French forces bombard Veracruz, during the French intervention in Mexico.*16 March - French siege of Puebla begins....
  
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• 16 April - Adolphe Thiers
  Adolphe Thiers
  Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...
  
  , politician, historian and Prime Minister of France
  Prime Minister of France
  The Prime Minister of France in the Fifth Republic is the head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France. The head of state is the President of the French Republic...
  
   (d.1877
  1877 in France
  See also:1876 in France,other events of 1877,1878 in France.----Events from the year 1877 in France.-Events:*16 May - Political crisis which ultimately sealed the defeat of the royalist movement.*14 October - Legislative election held....
  
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• 27 April - Jean Victoire Audouin
  Jean Victoire Audouin
  thumb|Victor AudouinJean Victoire Audouin , sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist.Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine...
  
  , naturalist
  Natural history
  Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
  
  , entomologist and ornithologist (d.1841
  1841 in France
  See also:1840 in France,other events of 1841,1842 in France.----Events from the year 1841 in France.-Births:*7 January - Bernadette Soubirous, reported apparitions at Lourdes .*14 January - Berthe Morisot, painter ....
  
  ).
• 10 September - Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert
  Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert
  Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert was a French philanthropist, is not brother of Nicolas Appert.He was born in Paris. While a young man he introduced a system of mutual instruction into the regimental schools of the département of the Nord. The success which it obtained induced him to publish a Manual...
  
  , philanthropist
  Philanthropist
  A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
  
   (d.1847
  1847 in France
  See also:1846 in France,other events of 1847,1848 in France.----Events from the year 1847 in France.-Events:*15 April - French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombarded Đà Nẵng in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries.*21 December - Abd al-Kader surrenders and is...
  
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Deaths

• 17 May - Michel-Jean Sedaine
  Michel-Jean Sedaine
  Michel-Jean Sedaine was a French dramatist, was born in Paris.- Biography :His father, who was an architect, died when Sedaine was quite young, leaving no fortune, and the boy began life as a mason's labourer...
  
  , dramatist (b.1719).
• 27 May - François-Noël Babeuf
  François-Noël Babeuf
  François-Noël Babeuf , known as Gracchus Babeuf , was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period...
  
  , political agitator and journalist, executed (b.1760).
• 27 May - Augustin Alexandre Darthé
  Augustin Alexandre Darthé
  -Revolutionary:Born in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, he became administrator of the département of Pas-de-Calais after the outbreak of the French Revolution, and, as an admirer of Maximilien Robespierre, became a public agitator....
  
  , Revolutionary, executed (b.1769
  1769 in France
  See also:1768 in France,other events of 1769,1770 in France.----Events from the year 1769 in France.-Events:*8 May - Battle of Ponte Novu begins between royal French forces and the native Corsicans....
  
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• 18 November - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat
  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat
  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat was one of the most important shipbuilders and merchants of the port of Bordeaux in the late 18th century...
  
  , shipbuilder and merchant (b.1719).

Full date unknown

• Antoine Dauvergne
  Antoine Dauvergne
  Antoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne served as master of the Chambre du roi, director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and director of the Opéra three times between 1769 and 1790...
  
  , composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   and violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  ist (b.1713).