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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 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

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 Box es

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 25 - Thomas Sandby , English cartographer and architect (b. 1721 )

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 )

December 4 - Luigi Galvani , Italian physicist (b. 1737 )