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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. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–June[edit] ·
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 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 5 – French troops enter Bern.[2] ·
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. ·
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][1] ·
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.[3] ·
May 23 – Irish republicans and nationalists,
known as the Society of
United Irishmen, launch a rebellion against
British rule, in expectation of greater support from France, which only sends
1,100 men. The United Irishmen are unique amongst Irish nationalist movements,
in that they unify Catholics and Protestants around republican ideals. The
rebellion rages sporadically, but is defeated by the
British by October. ·
June 12 ·
The French take Malta. ·
A moderate coup d'état in
the Netherlands (Batavian Republic)
deposes Pieter Vreede. ·
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[edit] ·
July 1 – Egyptian
Campaign: Napoleon disembarks his French army in Marabout Bay. ·
July 7 ·
Quasi-War: The United States
Congress rescinds treaties with France, sparking the war.[1] ·
In the action of USS Delaware vs La
Croyable, the newly-formed United States Navy makes
its first capture. ·
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 – The Piedmontese Republic is declared in the
territory of Piedmont. ·
September 10 – Battle of St.
George's Caye: Off the coast of British Honduras (now Belize), a group of British nationals and
African slaves defeat a force sent from Mexico to drive them out. ·
September 18 – Lyrical Ballads is published
anonymously by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and William Wordsworth,
inaugurating the English Romantic movement in
literature. ·
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] ·
Battle of Tory
Island: A British Royal Navy squadron, under Sir
John Borlase Warren, prevents French Republican ships,
commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François
Bompart, from landing reinforcements for
the Society of
United Irishmen on the Donegal coast; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies
of his wounds. ·
Peasants War against
the French occupiers of the Southern Netherlands begins
in Overmere. ·
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.[4] ·
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. Date unknown[edit] ·
An
Essay on the Principle of Population is first
published (anonymously), by Thomas Malthus. ·
Aarau becomes the temporary capital of
the Helvetic Republic. ·
Alois Senefelder invents lithography. ·
Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S.
federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable
parts. ·
The first census in Brazil counts 2 million blacks in a
total population of 3.25 million. ·
The Ayrshire
(Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a British Army Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, formed by The Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire in 1794,
is adopted onto the British Army List. ·
Jenner publishes his work on smallpox vaccination. ·
The platypus is first discovered by
Europeans. Births[edit]
August
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil ·
January 14 – Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872) ·
January 19 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857) ·
January 20 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President
of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858) ·
March 9 – Mathilda Berwald,
Finnish and Swedish concert singer (d. 1877) ·
March 23 – Christiane Bøcher, Norwegian actress (d. 1874) ·
March 25 – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852) ·
March 25 – Corvo Attano,
fictional character, Royal Protector, assassin (d. unknown) ·
March 13 – Abigail Fillmore, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1853) ·
April 2 – August
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben,
German writer (d. 1874) ·
April 3 – Charles Wilkes, American naval officer,
explorer (d. 1877) ·
April 12 – Baron du Potet,
French writer (d. 1881) ·
April 26 – Eugène Delacroix,
French painter (d. 1863) ·
April 28 – Duncan Forbes,
British linguist (d. 1868) ·
May 10 – Christodoulos Hatzipetros, Greek military leader
(d. 1869) ·
June 12 – William Abbot, English actor (d. 1843) ·
June 14 – František Palacký, Czech historian, politician
(d. 1876) ·
June 29 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (d. 1837) ·
July 14 – Alessandro Antonelli,
Italian architect (d. 1888) ·
July 15 – Alexander Gorchakov,
Russian politician (d. 1883) ·
August 17 – Thomas Hodgkin, British physician,
pathologist (d. 1866) ·
September 4 – Raynold Kaufgetz,
Swiss academic (d. 1869) ·
September 11 – Franz Ernst Neumann,
German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895) ·
October 2 – King Charles Albert
of Sardinia (d. 1849) ·
October 12 – Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (also
Pedro IV, King of Portugal) (d. 1834) ·
December 4 – Jules Armand Dufaure, 3-time Prime Minister of France
(d. 1881) ·
December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1855) Deaths[edit]
·
February 12 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, deposed
last King of Poland and Grand Duke of
Lithuania (b. 1732) ·
February 25 – Louis Jules
Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat,
writer (b. 1716) ·
March 22 – Justin Morgan, American horse breeder and
composer (b. 1747) ·
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) ·
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 (d. 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 18 – John Lewis Gervais,
American revolutionary, member of Provincial Congress (1775), State's
Committee of Safety (1775-1781), South Carolina Senate (1781, 1782),
Continental Congress (1782, 1783) (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 19 – Theobald Wolfe Tone,
Irish republican (b. 1737) ·
December 4 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1763) ·
Wang Cong'er,
Chinese rebel leader (b. 1777) References[edit] 1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j 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 2. ^ "Historical
Events for Year 1798 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com.
Retrieved 2016-07-11. 3. ^ Richard Holmes (2015). The
Napoleonic Wars, Egypt and Syria campaign, p. 28. ISBN 978-1-78097-614-3 4. ^ Chandler, Charles L. (June 1953).
"Catholic Merchants of Early Philadelphia". Records of the
American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. 64 (2):
94–103. JSTOR 44210305. |
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