1798

Years: 1795 1796 1797 - 1798 - 1799 1800 1801
Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1798 in art 1798 in literature 1798 in music 1798 in science List of state leaders in 1798 List of religious leaders in 1798

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

February-October - Irish Rebellion
April 26 - France annexes Geneva
May 24 - Irish Rebellion: Irish nationalists rebel against British occupation forces believing that French troops were going to invade Ireland.
June 12 - French take Malta
June 13 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
July 1 - Napoleon's troops land on Egypt
July 7 - Quasi-War: The United States 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
August 1 - Horatio Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys at the Battle of the Nile. Nelson himself is wounded on the head
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.
X, Y, Z 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

Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Births

January 14 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician
February 17 - Auguste Comte, "father" of sociology
March 13 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States
March 30 - Luise Hensel, poet (+ 1876)
April 2 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, lyricist (+ 1874, writer of "Das Lied der Deutschen")
April 26 - Eugene Delacroix, painter
April 28 - Duncan Forbes, linguist
October 2 - Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia
William Abbot - english actor

Deaths

December 4 - Luigi Galvani, physicist