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| 1797 |
| | | Horace Walpole dies and the Strawberry Hill estate is left to his niece, Anne Seymour Damer, a well-known sculptress, for her lifetime. | |
|  | Strawberry Hill, aquatint 1793
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| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice | |
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| 1797 |
| | | In Venice Napoleon deposes the last of the doges and sets up a provisional democracy | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | On 18 Fructidor (September 4) Napoleon organizes, from a distance, a coup d'étât in Paris on behalf of three of the Directors | |
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| 1797 |
| | | The king's son, William, Duke of Clarence, becomes Keeper (or Ranger) of Bushy Park and establishes his mistress, the actress Dora Jordan, in Bushy House | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock' | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule | |
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| 1797 |
| | | George Gostling II inherits Whitton Park and commisions Humphrey Repton to landscape the grounds. | |
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