1797 Disestablishments In The Holy Roman Empire
Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as the official flag (this is considered the birth of the flag of Italy). * January 13 – Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal Navy frigates, HMS Indefatigable (1784), HMS ''Indefatigable'' and HMS Amazon (1795), HMS ''Amazon'', drive the French Seventy-four (ship), 74-gun ship of the line ''French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794), Droits de l'Homme'' aground on the coast of Brittany, with over 900 deaths. * January 14 – War of the First Coalition – Battle of Rivoli: French forces under General Napoleon Bonaparte defeat an Austrian army of 28,000 men, under ''General of the branch, Feldzeugmeister'' József Alvinczi, near Rivoli Ver ...
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