1797 in Belgium
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 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.
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
- * Étienne-François Letourneur, François-Marie de Barthélemy, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
- * Lazare Carnot, François de Neufchâteau
Events
;February- 16 February – Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg sold at auction.
- 28 April – auction of Dominican convent and church in Antwerp begins; buildings bought by Prior Cornelius Peltiers.
- 18 October – By the Treaty of Campo Formio the Austrian monarchy accepts the French annexation of the former Austrian Netherlands.
- 25 October – University of Leuven suppressed by decree.
- 20 November – French authorities begin compiling lists of priests in Belgium
- 25 November – Law of 5 Frimaire confiscates property of all religious colleges, seminaries and confraternities.
Births
- 2 February – Joseph Guislain, physician
- 17 September – Eugène-Henri Defacqz, magistrate
- 21 October – Charles Moerman d'Harlebeke, senator
Deaths
- 4 May – Jan-Baptist Verlooy, revolutionary
- 17 May – Johannes Joseph Beerenbroek, industrialist