1797 Fact Sheet

Database: Great Inventions by Year and Country

Record Name Year Country Region Source Inventor Name
Parachute 1797 France Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2003 André-Jacques Garnerin

Database: Year and Discoverer of Chemical Elements

Record Name Element Year Discovered Discovered By Source
Chromium Chromium 1797 Louis-Nicholas Vauquelin Jefferson Lab

Database: Periodic Table of the Elements

Record Name Symbol Group Number Melting Point Boiling Point Density Year Discovered Atomic Weight % of Earth's Crust
Beryllium Be 2 4 1278 2970 1.85 1797 9.0122
Neon Ne 18 10 -249 -246 1898 20.1797
Chromium Cr 6 24 1857 2672 7.19 1797 51.9961 0.035

Database: US Presidents

Record Name Birth State Religion Political Party Died Country Term Start Term Finish Birthdate Date of Death Inauguration Age Age at Death Number
Washington VIRGINIA Episcopalian Federalist Died after Office United States 1789 1797 2/22/1732 12/14/1799 57 67 1
J. Adams MASSACHUSETTS Unitarian Federalist Died after Office United States 1797 1801 10/30/1735 7/4/1826 61 90 2
Jefferson VIRGINIA Deist Democratic Republican Died after Office United States 1797 1801 4/13/1743 7/4/1826 57 83 3

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