1797 in the United States

Events from the year 1797 in the United States.

1797
in
the United States

Decades:
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Incumbents

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George Washington (no political party-Virginia) (until March 4)
John Adams (F-Massachusetts) (starting March 4)
John Adams (F-Massachusetts) (until March 4)
Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia) (starting March 4)

Events

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March 4: John Adams becomes the second U.S. president
 
Thomas Jefferson becomes the second U.S. vice president

Undated

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  • The XYZ Affair inflames tensions between France and the United States.

Ongoing

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Births

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Deaths

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Lathrop, John (1804). "An Account of the Deleterious Effects of Mephitic Air, or Marsb Miasmata, Experienced by Three Men, July 27, 1797. In a Well, on the Boston Pier". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2 (2): 81–84. Bibcode:1804MAAAS...2...81L. doi:10.2307/27670816. JSTOR 27670816.
  • Notes of Travel of William Henry, John Heckewelder, John Rothrock, and Christian Clewell, to Gnadenhuetten on the Muskingum, in the Early Summer of 1797. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 10, No. 2 (July, 1886), pp. 125–157
  • Peterson, Charles E. (1953). "Virginia Penitentiary, 1797". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 12 (4): 27–28. doi:10.2307/987651. JSTOR 987651.
  • Herman R. Friis, Ralph E. Ehrenberg. Nicholas King and His Wharfing Plans of the City of Washington, 1797. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 66/68, The 46th separately bound book (1966/1968), pp. 34–46.
  • William K. Bottorff, Roy C. Flannagan, Frances Baylor Hill. The Diary of Frances Baylor Hill of "Hillsborough" King and Queen County Virginia (1797). Early American Literature Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, (Winter, 1967), pp. 3–53.
  • David J. Brandenburg, Millicent H. Brandenburg. The Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt's Visit to the Federal City in 1797: A New Translation. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 49, The 49th separately bound book (1973/1974), pp. 35–60.
  • Stinchcombe, William (1975). "Talleyrand and the American Negotiations of 1797-1798". The Journal of American History. 62 (3): 575–590. doi:10.2307/2936215. JSTOR 2936215.
  • Lee W. Formwalt. An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796-1798. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 85, No. 4 (October, 1977), pp. 387–410.
  • John L. Brittain and Henry Middleton Rutledge. Henry Middleton Rutledge to His Father, November 1, 1797. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 83, No. 3 (July, 1982), pp. 235–240.
  • Arthur Scherr. "Vox Populi" versus the Patriot President: Benjamin Franklin Bache's Philadelphia Aurora and John Adams (1797). Pennsylvania History, Vol. 62, No.4 (Fall 1995), pp. 503–531.
  • Chew, Richard S. (2005). "Certain Victims of an International Contagion: The Panic of 1797 and the Hard Times of the Late 1790s in Baltimore". Journal of the Early Republic. 25 (4): 565–613. doi:10.1353/jer.2005.0069. S2CID 154865404.
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