1798 (MDCCXCVIII ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1798th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 798th year of the 2nd millennium , the 98th year of the 18th century , and the 9th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1798, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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February 15 : French troops enter Rome.
August 1 : Battle of the Nile .
January–June
January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts .
January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest , as Prince of Wallachia .
January 22 – A coup d'état is staged in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic ). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede ends the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority).
February 10 – The Pope is taken captive, and the Papacy is removed from power, by French General Louis-Alexandre Berthier .
February 15 – U.S. Representative Roger Griswold (Fed-CT) beats Congressman Matthew Lyon (Dem-Rep-VT) with a cane after the House declines to censure Lyon earlier spitting in Griswold's face; the House declines to discipline either man.[1]
March – the Irish Rebellion of 1798 begins when the Irish Militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen ,[2] a group unique amongst Irish republican and nationalist movements in that it unifies Catholics and Protestants (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others) around republican ideals. This month, Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland and on March 30 martial law is proclaimed here. The first battles in the rebellion are fought on May 24 and it continues through September, but the rebels receive much less than the expected support from France, which sends only 1,100 men.
March 5 – French troops enter Bern .[3]
March 7 – French forces invade the Papal States and establish the Roman Republic .
April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized by the United States, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina ; later it is twice expanded, to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain (which acquired territory in trade with Great Britain).[1]
April 12 – The Helvetic Republic , a French client republic , is proclaimed following the collapse of the Old Swiss Confederacy after the French invasion; Aarau becomes the republic's temporary capital.
April 26 – France annexes Geneva .
April 30 – The United States Department of the Navy is established as a cabinet-level department. Benjamin Stoddert , a civilian businessman, is appointed as the first Navy Secretary by President Adams.[1]
May 7 – French Revolutionary Wars : A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses .[4]
May 9 – Napoleon sets off for Toulon , sailing aboard Vice-Admiral Brueys 's flagship L'Orient ; his squadron is part of a larger fleet of over 300 vessels, carrying almost 37,000 troops.[5]
May 27 – Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath . British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger fights a duel against opposition politician George Tierney
June 12
June 13 – Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded in California.
June 18 – The first of the four Alien and Sedition Acts , the Naturalization Act of 1798 , is signed into law by U.S. President Adams, requiring immigrants to wait 14 years rather than five years to become naturalized citizens of the United States. On June 25, another law is signed authorizing the imprisonment and deportation of any non-citizens deemed to be dangerous.[1]
July– December
July 1 – Egyptian Campaign : Napoleon disembarks his French army in Marabout Bay.
July 7
July 11 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established under its present name.[1]
July 12 – Battle of Shubra Khit : French troops defeat the Mamelukes, during Napoleon's march from Alexandria to take Cairo.
July 14 – The fourth of the Alien and Sedition Acts , the Sedition Act of 1798 is signed into law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government .[1]
July 16 – The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act is signed into law, creating the Marine Hospital Service , the forerunner to the current United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps .
July 21 – Battle of the Pyramids : Napoleon defeats Ottoman forces near the Pyramids.
July 24 – Napoleon occupies Cairo .
July 31 – A second round of elections are held in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic ); no general elections this time.
August 1 – Battle of the Nile (near Abu Qir ): Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys . 11 of the 13 French battleships are captured or destroyed, including the flagship Orient whose magazine explodes; Nelson himself is wounded in the head.
August 22 – French troops land at Kilcummin in County Mayo to assist the Irish Rebellion .
September – Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first significant American novel, the Gothic fiction Wieland: or, The Transformation; an American Tale .
September 5 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan Law.
September 10
September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth , inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature.
September 23 – Battle of Killala : in the last land battle of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 , British troops defeat the remaining rebel Irish and French forces at Killala .[6]
October 2 – The Cherokee nation signs a treaty with the United States allowing free passage through Cherokee lands in Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia into Kentucky.[1]
October 7 – U.S. Representative Matthew Lyon of Vermont becomes the first member of Congress to be put on trial for violating the new Sedition Act of 1798 .[1]
October 12
October 22 – Capitulation of the French garrison at Hyderabad to East India Company troops under James Kirkpatrick , British Resident .
October 23 – The Ottoman–Albanian forces of Ali Pasha of Janina defeat the French and capture the town of Preveza in the Battle of Nicopolis .[7]
November 4 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu begins.
November 8 – British whaler John Fearn becomes the first European to land on Nauru .
November 28 – Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy 's frigate John arrives in Montevideo .[8]
December 5 – Peasants War in the Southern Netherlands: The revolt is crushed in Hasselt ; during the uprising it is estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 people have been killed.
December 6 – General Joubert of the Piedmontese Republic occupies the Sardinian capital of Turin.
Robley Dunglison born 4 January
Marie Dorval born 6 January
Isaac da Costa born 14 January
Joshua King born 16 January
André Friedrich born 17 January
Jane Williams born 21 January
Charles Davies (professor) born 22 January
Henry Addison (mayor) born 24 January
Richard William Jelf born 25 January
Thekchok Dorje, 14th Karmapa Lama born 27 January
Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya born 31 January
John Cochrane (chess player) born 4 February
Bolette Puggaard born 7 February
Harriet Waylett born 7 February
Johann Schroth born 11 February
Heinrich Beitzke born 15 February
Friedrich Eduard Beneke born 17 February
Ann Agnes Trail born 17 February
Johann Jakob Ulrich born 28 February
Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau born 1 March
Gregory VI of Constantinople born 1 March
Udagawa Yōan born 9 March
Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe born 11 March
Elizabeth Goodridge born 12 March
Abigail Fillmore born 13 March
Daniel Frederik Eschricht born 18 March
Gustav Rose born 18 March
Luise Hensel born 30 March
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben born 2 April
Marie Amélie Cogniet born 5 April
James Beckwourth born 6 April
Ramón de la Sagra born 8 April
Arphaxed Loomis born 9 April
Fanny Gulick born 16 April
Antonio Rolla born 18 April
William Edmond Logan born 20 April
Adolf von Rauch born 22 April
Claire Clairmont born 27 April
William Mercer Green born 2 May
Charles Kanaʻina born 4 May
Alphonse Périn born 12 May
Ellis Lewis born 16 May
William Branwhite Clarke born 2 June
Niels Laurits Høyen born 4 June
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven born 9 June
František Palacký born 14 June
Nabeshima Naotomo born 16 June
McDonald Clarke born 18 June
Jan Valerián Jirsík born 19 June
Walter Hilliard Bidwell born 21 June
Ditlev Blunck born 22 June
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart born 24 June
Wolfgang Menzel born 26 June
Gustav Adolf Michaelis born 9 July
Cyrus Bryant born 12 July
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) born 13 July
Alessandro Antonelli born 14 July
Gabriele Smargiassi born 22 July
Albert Knapp born 25 July
Carl Blechen born 29 July
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne born 3 August
Walker Lewis born 3 August
Mirabeau B. Lamar born 16 August
Alfred Ollivant (bishop) born 16 August
Jules Michelet born 21 August
Sardar Singh of Udaipur born 29 August
Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria born 30 August
Virginie Déjazet born 30 August
Sophie Esterházy born 5 September
Kujō Hisatada born 5 September
Samuel Friedrich Hassel born 9 September
Philipp Schey von Koromla born 20 September
Takashima Shūhan born 24 September
Louis Alphonse de Brébisson born 25 September
Etelka Szapáry born 26 September
Bonaventura Genelli born 28 September
Ange Paulin Terver born 4 October
John Byington born 8 October
Ida Arenhold born 11 October
Pedro I of Brazil born 12 October
Jesse Olney born 12 October
Herman Wilhelm Bissen born 13 October
Łukasz Baraniecki born 14 October
Levi Coffin born 28 October
Antonio Cabral Bejarano born 31 October
Henriette Méric-Lalande born 4 November
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry born 5 November
Eliza, Lady Darling born 10 November
John Amory Lowell born 11 November
Abel Hugo born 15 November
Therese Grob born 16 November
Angeliki Palli born 22 November
Hannah Simpson Grant born 23 November
Alonzo Morphy born 23 November
Cora Millet-Robinet born 28 November
Frederic Carpenter Skey born 1 December
Alexandre-Marie Colin born 5 December
James Henry (poet) born 13 December
Joseph R. Walker born 13 December
Heinrich Smidt born 18 December
Paul (dancer) born 21 December
William Clarke born 24 December
Adam Mickiewicz born 24 December
Catherine Grace Godwin born 25 December
May
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4 – Charles Kanaʻina , Hawaiian noble, father of King Lunalilo (d. 1877 )
May 5 – Jonathan Edwards Ryland , British writer (d. 1866 )
May 6
May 7 – Emil Wilhelm Krummacher , German clergyman (d. 1886 )
May 8
May 10
May 11 – Trinidad Guevara , Uruguayan actor (d. 1873 )
May 12
May 13
May 14 – Julius Christopher Hammer , Norwegian politician (d. 1877 )
May 15
May 16 – Ellis Lewis , American judge (d. 1871 )
May 17 – George Don , Scottish botanist (d. 1856 )
May 18
May 19 – Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby , British politician (d. 1882 )
May 20
May 21
May 22
May 24 – Walker King , priest (d. 1859 )
May 25 – Antoine-Olivier Berthelet , businessman, philanthropist, politician in Lower Canada (d. 1872 )
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 31 – Robert Nugent Dunbar , British poet (d. 1866 )
June
June 1 – John Hollins , British artist (d. 1855 )
June 2
June 3 – William Soden Hastings , American politician (d. 1842 )
June 4
June 5 – Alexei Lvov , Russian composer (d. 1870 )
June 6 – James White McClung , American lawyer and politician (d. 1848 )
June 7
June 8
Johann Friedrich Riedel , German missionary (d. 1860 )
June 9
June 10
June 12
June 13
June 14 – František Palacký , Czech philosopher, historian, publicist and writer (d. 1876 )
June 16
June 18
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22 – Ditlev Blunck , Danish artist (d. 1853 )
June 23 – Thomas Church , colonial Administrator (d. 1860 )
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 29
June 30
September
September 1
September 2
September 3
September 4
September 5
September 6 – Nathalie Elma d'Esménard , French artist and botanical illustrator (d. 1872 )
September 7 – Karl Schnaase , German art historian (d. 1875 )
September 8
September 9
September 10 – Adam Johan Frederik Poulsen Trampe , Norwegian jurist (d. 1876 )
September 11
September 12 – Janez Vesel , Slovenian writer and lawyer (d. 1884 )
September 13 – Robert Hodgson , Canadian lawyer, politician, judge (d. 1880 )
September 14
September 16
September 18
September 19 – Caesar Hawkins , British surgeon (d. 1884 )
September 20
September 22
September 23
September 24 – Takashima Shūhan , samurai and military engineer (d. 1866 )
September 25
September 26
September 27
September 28
September 29
September 30 – John Wilkinson , lawyer and Postmaster (d. 1862 )
November
November 1
November 2 – Jules Coignet , French painter (d. 1860 )
November 3
November 4
November 5
November 6
November 7
November 8
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 13 – Anne Nasmyth , Scottish artist (d. 1874 )
November 14
November 15
November 16
November 18 – Eugène Renduel , French publisher (d. 1874 )
November 19 – José María Alviso , American mayor (d. 1853 )
November 20 – Johann Georg August Wirth , German journalist and author (d. 1848 )
November 21
November 22 – Angeliki Palli , Italian poet, translator, editor (d. 1875 )
November 23
November 26
November 27
November 28 – Cora Millet-Robinet , French writer (d. 1890 )
November 29
November 30 – Friedrich Heinrich Ranke , German theologian (d. 1876 )
Giacomo Casanova
Wolfe Tone
January 3 – Carlo Aurelio Widmann , Venetian nobleman and admiral (b. 1750 )
January 22 – Lewis Morris , American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1726 )
February 12 – Stanisław August Poniatowski , deposed last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1732 )[11]
February 25 – Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini , French diplomat, writer (b. 1716 )
March 22 – Justin Morgan , American horse breeder and composer (b. 1747 )
March 25 – General Michel Joachim Marie Raymond , French leader of the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad (poisoned) (b. 1755 )
April – Gideon Morris , trans-Appalachian pioneer (b. 1756 )
April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler , German poet (b. 1725 )
April 12 – Madeleine de Puisieux , French writer, active feminist (b. 1720 )
April 14 – Henry Mowat , Scottish-born British Royal Navy officer (b. 1734 )
April 29 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus , German entomologist (b. 1723 )
May 10 – George Vancouver , British Royal Navy officer, explorer (Vancouver , Canada is named after him) (b. 1757 )[12]
May 19 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueler (b. 1722 )
June – Betsy Gray , Irish rebel heroine
June 4 – Giacomo Casanova , Italian adventurer, writer (b. 1725 )
June 21 – John Kelly of Killanne , Irish republican
June 25 – Thomas Sandby , English cartographer, architect (b. 1721 )
June 29 – Catharina Mulder , Dutch organist (b. 1723 )
July 17 – Henry Joy McCracken , Irish republican
July 21 – François Sébastien 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 11 – Joshua Clayton , American politician (b. 1744 )
August 18 – John Lewis Gervais , American revolutionary and politician (b. 1741 )
August 21 – James Wilson , American politician (b. 1742 )
August 24 – Thomas Alcock , English clergyman (b. 1709 )
August 25 – Mikiel'Ang Grima , Maltese surgeon (b. 1731 )
September 21 – George Read , American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733 )
November 5 – John Zephaniah Holwell , British surgeon (b. 1711 )
November 15 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli , Italian operatic tenor (b. 1716 )
November 19 – Wolfe Tone , Irish republican (b. 1737 )[13]
November 21 – Gabriel Lenkiewicz , Belarusian Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1722 )
December 4 – Luigi Galvani , Italian physicist (b. 1737 )
December 16 – Thomas Pennant , Welsh naturalist (b. 1726 )
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909 , ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p171
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