What day of the week was March 2, 1797?
The day of the week March 2nd, 1797 fell on was a Thursday.
Horace Walpole the English historian (b. 1717) died on this day in 1797. As did Horace Walpole the English historian and politician (b. 1717) .
The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.