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1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• 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).
• 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
• April 26 - France annexes Geneva
• May 24 - Irish nationalists launch bloody rebellion against British occupation.
• June 12 - French take Malta
• June 12 - Coupe 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 Killala 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)
• July 21 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
• 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
• 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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