We report a uniaxial pressure-dependence of magnetism in layered perovskite strontium ruthenate Sr 3 Ru 2 O 7 . By applying a relatively small uniaxial pressure, greater than 0.1 GPa normal to the RuO 2 layer, ferromagnetic ordering manifests below 80 K from the enhancedparamagnet. Magnetization at 1 kOe and 2 K becomes 100 times larger than that under ambient condition. Uniaxial pressure dependence of Curie temperature T C suggests the first order magnetic transition. Origin of this uniaxial-pressure induced ferromagnetism is discussed in terms of the rotation of RuO 6 octahedra within the RuO 2 plane.KEYWORDS: Sr3Ru2O7, Sr2RuO4, ferromagnetism, uniaxial pressure, nearly ferromagnetic metal, magnetization, structural distortion §1. IntroductionTuning the magnetism in solid state compounds via tiny perturbation is one of the central issues for strongly-correlated electron systems such as heavy-fermion (HF) intermetallic compounds.Since those materials tend to reveal the high susceptibility of the electronic properties to relatively small external pressures (≤ GPa). For instance, antiferromagnetic HF compounds (CeCu 2 Ge 2 , 1)3) ) and a ferromagnetic HF compound (UGe 2 4) ) reveal superconductivity under several GPa hydrostatic pressures, which reduce the magnetic ordering temperature towards absolute zero. Around the diminishing region, the superconductivity appears. Several GPa pressures, which is necessary to induce the superconductivity in above HF compounds, are relatively small *