1797 in the United States
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Events from the year 1797 in the United States.

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• January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers (see also 1796).
• February 22 – The last invasion of Britain: An American colonel named William Tate leads French forces in a landing near Fishguard in Wales.
• March 4 – John Adams is sworn in as the 2nd President of the United States of America.
• April 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the English navy for years to come.
• May 10 – The first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States (1797), is commissioned.
• October 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.

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

[edit] External links

• Media related to 1797 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons