Editing 1797 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Ataque británico en Santa Cruz de Tenerife.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 24]]: [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)|Battle of Santa Cruz]]]]
* [[July 9]] &ndash; U.S. Senator [[William Blount]] becomes the first federal legislator to be expelled from office, as his fellow Senators vote 25 to 1 to block him from his seat during an investigation against him on charges of criminal conspiracy.<ref name="Harper1797">{{cite book|title=Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909|editor1=Lossing, Benson John|editor2=Wilson, Woodrow|location=New York|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1910|page=171}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Gual and España conspiracy]] against Spanish rule in [[Colonial Venezuela]] is exposed.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Horatio Nelson]] is wounded at the [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)|Battle of Santa Cruz]], losing an arm.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Massacre of Tranent]]: British troops attack protestors against enforced recruitment into the [[Militia (Great Britain)|militia]] at [[Tranent]], [[Scotland]], killing 11 and injuring 8. 
* [[September 4]] &ndash; The [[Coup of 18 Fructidor]] is carried out in [[France]] as three of the five members of [[French Directory|The Directory]], France's executive council, arrested royalist members of the [[Council of Five Hundred]], the national legislature, and discard the results of the spring elections.<ref>{{cite book|first=K. Steven|last=Vincent|title=Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism|publisher=Springer|year=2011|pages=81–82}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash;  France's new government decrees that citizens who left the country without authorization are subject to the death penalty if they return.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Andress|title=The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2015}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret]], French finance minister, repudiates two thirds of France's debt.