1798
1798 was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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January 22 - Coupe d'état in the Netherlands (
Batavian Republic). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede makes an end to the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority).
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7 March - French forces invade the
Papal States and establish the
Middle Roman Republic*
April 7 - The
Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by
Georgia and
South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain
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April 26 -
France annexes
Geneva*
May 24 -
Irish nationalists launch bloody
rebellion against
British occupation.
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June 12 - French take
Malta*
June 12 - Coupe d'état in the Netherlands (
Batavian Republic). Moderates depose Pieter Vreede.
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June 13 -
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
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July 1 -
Napoleon's troops land in
Egypt*
July 7 -
Quasi-War: The
U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with
France sparking the '
war.'
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July 11 - The
United States Marine Corps was (re-?)established.
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July 14 - The
Alien and Sedition Acts become
United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the
United States government*
July 21 - Napoleon defeats
Mameluke forces near the Pyramids
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July 24 - Napoleon occupies
Cairo*
July 31 - Second elections in the Netherlands (
Batavian Republic). No
general elections this time.
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August 1 -
Horatio Nelson defeats the French navy under
Admiral Brueys at the
Battle of the Nile. Nelson himself is wounded on the head
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August 22 - French troops land at Kilcummin in
County Mayo to assist
Irish rebellion.
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September 18 -
Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
William Wordsworth*first (anonymous) publication of
An Essay on the Principle of Population by
Thomas Malthus*
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer, begins editing journals about navigation and the geographic positions of cities.
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XYZ Affair in the U.S., followed by naval skirmishes but no war is declared.
* First mechanical
music boxes
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Alessandro Volta and
La Place discover electricity
* The
Afghans Army occupied
Lahore in
Punjab*
Timothy Dexter -
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress*
Aarau is the temporary
capital of the
Helvetic Republic*
Alois Senefelder invents
lithography*
Eli Whitney contracts with the
US Federal Government for 10,000 rifles, which he produces with interchangeable parts
* Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first American Novel
Wieland or
The Transformation an American TaleOngoing events
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French Revolution (
1789-
1799 Revolutionary Wars (
1792-
1802)-
Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
* May-October -
Irish Rebellion of 1798*
January 14 -
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d.
1872)
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January 17 -
Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d.
1857)
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January 20 -
Anson Jones, 5th and last
President of the Republic of Texas (d.
1858)
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March 13 -
Abigail Fillmore,
First Lady of the United States*
April 2 -
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d.
1874)
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April 26 -
Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d.
1863)
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April 28 -
Duncan Forbes, British linguist (d.
1868)
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June 14 -
František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (d.
1876)
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June 29 -
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (d.
1837)
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July 21 -
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b.
1733)
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October 2 - King
Charles Albert of Sardinia (d.
1849)
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December 24 -
Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (d.
1855)
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William Abbot, English actor (d.
1843)
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February 25 -
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b.
1716)
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April 11 -
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b.
1725)
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April 29 -
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b.
1723)
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May 19 -
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b.
1722)
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June 4 -
Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (b.
1725)
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June 21 -
John Kelly of Killanne, Irish republican
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June 25 -
Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and architect (b.
1721)
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July 17 -
Henry Joy McCracken, Irish republican
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August 1 -
François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b.
1753)
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August 21 -
James Wilson, American politician (b.
1742)
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September 21 -
George Read, American lawyer and signer of the
Declaration of Independence (b.
1733)
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November 19 -
Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican
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December 4 -
Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b.
1737)
