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Year 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1798 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1798

[edit] January - June

• January 22 - Coup 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).
• February 10 - The Papacy was removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier.

• March 7 - French forces invade the Papal States and establish the 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.
• April 26 - France annexes Geneva.
• May 24 - Irish nationalists known as the Society of United Irishmen launch a bloody failed rebellion against British occupation with some support from France. The United Irishmen are unique amongst Irish nationalist movements in that they manage to unify Catholics and Protestants around republican ideals, the rebellion is quashed in October of 1798.
• June 12
  • French take Malta.
  • Coup d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Moderates depose Pieter Vreede.
• June 13 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.

[edit] July - December

• July 1 - Napoleon's troops land in Egypt.
• July 7 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
• July 11 - The United States Marine Corps was (re-?)established.
• 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 16 - Signing into law the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act, creating the US Marine Hospital Service, the forerunner to the current US Public Health Service.
• July 21 - Napoleon defeats Ottoman forces near the Pyramids.
• July 24 - Napoleon occupies Cairo.
• July 31 - Second elections in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). No general elections this time.

• August 1 - Horatio Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys at the Battle of the Nile (near Abu Qir): Nelson himself is wounded on the head.
• August 22 - French troops land at Kilcummin in County Mayo to assist Irish rebellion.
• September 10 - Conclusion of the Battle of St. George's Caye; off the coast of British Honduras (now Belize), a group of British nationals and African slaves defeat a force sent from Mexico to drive them out.
• September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

[edit] Undated

• The first (anonymous) publication occurs 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.
• XYZ Affair in the U.S., followed by naval skirmishes but no war is declared.
• First mechanical music boxes are built.
• 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 becomes 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 Tale.
• First census in Brazil. 2 million blacks in a total population of 3.25 million.

[edit] Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799 Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign.
• May-October - Irish Rebellion of 1798.

[edit] Births

1798 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1798 MDCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2551
Armenian calendar	1247 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-46 – -45
Berber calendar	2748
Buddhist calendar	2342
Burmese calendar	1160
Chinese calendar	4434/4494-11-15 (丁巳年十一月十五日) — to — 4435/4495-11-25 (戊午年十一月廿五日)
Coptic calendar	1514 – 1515
Ethiopian calendar	1790 – 1791
Hebrew calendar	5558 – 5559
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1853 – 1854
- Shaka Samvat	1720 – 1721
- Kali Yuga	4899 – 4900
Holocene calendar	11798
Iranian calendar	1176 – 1177
Islamic calendar	1212 – 1213
Japanese calendar	Kansei 10 (寛政10年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2458 (皇紀2458年)
Julian calendar	1843
Korean calendar	4131
Thai solar calendar	2341
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• January 14 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
• January 17 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857)
• January 20 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
• March 13 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States
• April 2 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
• April 26 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
• April 28 - Duncan Forbes, British linguist (d. 1868)
• June 12 - William Abbot, English actor (d. 1843)
• June 14 - František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (d. 1876)
• June 29 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (d. 1837)
• October 2 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
• December 24 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1855)

See also Category: 1798 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
• April 11 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
• April 29 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
• May 19 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
• June 4 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (b. 1725)
• June 21 - John Kelly of Killanne, Irish republican
• June 25 - Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and architect (b. 1721)
• July 17 - Henry Joy McCracken, Irish republican
• July 21 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
• August 1 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
• August 21 - James Wilson, American politician (b. 1742)
• August 24 - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
• September 21 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
• November 19 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican
• December 4 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)

See also Category: 1798 deaths.

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