1798

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1795 1796 1797 - 1798 - 1799 1800 1801
Decades:
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1798 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

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 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 30 - Selim III defeats Napoleon in Egypt
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

February 25 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
May 19 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
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)