1798
| Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 |
| 1798 in topic: |
| Arts |
| Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music |
| Other topics |
| Canada - Mexico - Science |
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| Colonial governors - State leaders |
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| Births - Deaths |
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| Establishments - Disestablishments |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1798 MDCCXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2551 |
| Armenian calendar | 1247 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԷ |
| 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) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1790 – 1791 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5558 – 5559 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1853 – 1854 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1720 – 1721 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4899 – 4900 |
| Iranian calendar | 1176 – 1177 |
| Islamic calendar | 1213 – 1214 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2341 |
1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- 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 Berthier.
- 7 March - 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 launch bloody rebellion against British occupation.
- June 12 - French take Malta
- June 12 - Coup d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Moderates depose Pieter Vreede.
- June 13 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
- 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 21 - Napoleon defeats Mameluke 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. Nelson himself is wounded on the head
- August 22 - French troops land at Kilcummin in County Mayo to assist Irish rebellion.
- 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.
- XYZ Affair in the U.S., followed by naval skirmishes but no war is declared.
- First mechanical music boxes
- 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 Tale
Ongoing events
- French Revolution (1789-1799 Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
- May-October - Irish Rebellion of 1798
Births
- 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 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)
- William Abbot, English actor (d. 1843)
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)
- 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)
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