1798

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

Years: 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 - 1798 - 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Alessandro Volta and La Place discover electricity
• February-October - Irish Rebellion
• 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
• July - Napoleon invades Egypt
• July 7 - Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
• July 14 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
• August 2 - French navy under admiral Bruyes loses and Horatio Nelson wins Battle of the Nile
• 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.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1798 in literature:
  • September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth

Births

• January 14 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician
• 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\n