Editing 1797 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:Thomas-Whitcombe-Battle-of-Camperdown.jpg|thumb|right|[[October 11]]: [[Battle of Camperdown]]]]
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Camperdown]]: the British Royal Navy defeats the fleet of the [[Batavian Republic]] off the coast of [[Holland]].<ref name=CBH236237>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=236–237|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Campo Formio]] ends the [[War of the First Coalition]].
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The [[XYZ Affair]] inflames tensions between France and the United States when American negotiators [[Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]], [[John Marshall]], and [[Elbridge Gerry]] meet with French government representatives [[Jean-Conrad Hottinguer]], Pierre Bellamy and Lucien Hauteval and are told that a treaty between France and the U.S. will require payment of a bribe to France's Foreign Minister [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord|Charles Talleyrand]] and a large loan of American cash to France. Pinckney tells people later that his response was "No, no, not a sixpence!"; Hottinguer, Bellamy and Hauteval are referred to, respectively, as "X", "Y" and "Z" in U.S. government reports on the failed negotiations.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mathew|last=Manweller|title=Chronology of the U.S. Presidency|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2012|page=57}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; In [[Boston Harbor]], the 44-gun United States Navy frigate {{USS|Constitution}} is launched to fight [[Barbary pirates]] off the coast of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]; the ship will remain in commission in the 21st century.
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[André-Jacques Garnerin]] makes the first parachute descent, at Parc Monceau, Paris; he uses a silk parachute to descend approximately {{convert|3,000|ft|m}} from a hot air balloon.
* [[November]] &ndash; [[1797 Rugby School rebellion]]: The students at [[Rugby School]] in England rebel against the headmaster, Henry Ingles, after he decrees that the damage to a tradesman's windows should be paid for by the students.<ref>''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081625000;view=2up;seq=218;skin=mobile A History of Rugby School]''. pp. 182–185.</ref>
* [[November 16]]
** The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as [[Frederick William III of Prussia|Fredrick William III]].
** (or November 23?) &ndash; British [[Royal Navy]] [[frigate]] {{HMS|Tribune|1796}} is wrecked on the approaches to [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]]; of the 240 on board, all but 12 are lost.<ref name=Hepper>{{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3|page=85}}</ref>