1797 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1797 in the Belgian Departments of France. The French First Republic had annexed the Austrian Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium) in 1795 and had reorganised the territory as the nine departments Dyle, Escaut, Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Meuse-Inférieure, Deux-Nèthes, Ourthe, and Sambre-et-Meuse.[1]
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The year 1797 corresponds to the period from 12 Nivôse of Year V to 11 Nivôse of Year VI in the French Republican Calendar.
Incumbents
- Directors
- Paul Barras
- Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
- Jean-François Rewbell
- Ãtienne-François Letourneur (to 26 May), François-Marie de Barthélemy (from 26 May to 5 September), Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai (from 5 September)
- Lazare Carnot (to 5 September), François de Neufchâteau (from 5 September)
Events
- February
- 16 February â Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg sold at auction.
- April
- 28 April â auction of Dominican convent and church in Antwerp begins; buildings bought by Prior Cornelius Peltiers.[2]
- October
- 18 October â By the Treaty of Campo Formio the Austrian monarchy accepts the French annexation of the former Austrian Netherlands.[3]
- 25 October â University of Leuven suppressed by decree.[4]
- November
Births
- 2 February â Joseph Guislain, physician (died 1860)
- 17 September â Eugène-Henri Defacqz, magistrate (died 1871)[5]
- 21 October â Charles Moerman d'Harlebeke, senator (died 1854)[6]
Deaths
- 4 May â Jan-Baptist Verlooy (born 1746), revolutionary
- 17 May â Johannes Joseph Beerenbroek (born 1717), industrialist[7]