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February 15 : French troops enter Rome.1798 (MDCCXCVIII ) was acommon year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1798th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 98th year of the18th century , and the 9th year of the1790s 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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January –Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces withinterchangeable parts .January 4 –Constantine Hangerli entersBucharest , asPrince of Wallachia .January 22 – Acoup d'état is staged in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic ). Unitarian DemocratPieter 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 GeneralLouis-Alexandre Berthier .February 15 – U.S. RepresentativeRoger Griswold (Fed-CT) beats CongressmanMatthew Lyon (Dem-Rep-VT) with a cane, after the House declines to censure Lyon for earlier spitting in Griswold's face; the House declines to discipline either man.[ 1] March – theIrish Rebellion of 1798 begins when the IrishMilitia arrest the leadership of theSociety of United Irishmen ,[ 2] Irish republican andnationalist movements in that it unifies Catholics and Protestants (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others) around republican ideals. This month,Lord Castlereagh is appointed ActingChief Secretary for Ireland and onMarch 30 martial law is proclaimed here. The first battles in the rebellion are fought onMay 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 enterBern .[ 3] March 7 – French forces invade thePapal States and establish theRoman Republic .April 7 – TheMississippi Territory is organized by the United States, from territory ceded byGeorgia andSouth 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 – TheHelvetic Republic , aFrench client republic , is proclaimed following the collapse of theOld Swiss Confederacy after the French invasion;Aarau becomes the republic's temporary capital.April 26 – France annexesGeneva .April 30 – TheUnited 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 theÎles Saint-Marcouf isrepulsed with heavy losses .[ 4] May 9 –Napoleon sets off forToulon , sailing aboard Vice-AdmiralBrueys 's flagshipL'Orient squadron is part of a larger fleet of over 300 vessels, carrying almost 37,000 troops.[ 5] May 27 –Pitt–Tierney duel takes place onPutney Heath .British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger fights a duel against opposition politicianGeorge Tierney June 12 June 13 –Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded in California.June 18 – The first of the fourAlien and Sedition Acts , theNaturalization 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 1 –Egyptian Campaign : Napoleon disembarks his French army in Marabout Bay.July 7 July 11 – TheUnited States Marine Corps is re-established under its present name.[ 1] [ 6] 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 theAlien and Sedition Acts , theSedition Act of 1798 is signed into law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about theUnited States government .[ 1] July 16 –The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act is signed into law, creating theMarine Hospital Service , the forerunner to the currentUnited States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps .July 21 –Battle of the Pyramids : Napoleon defeatsOttoman forces near the Pyramids.July 24 – Napoleon occupiesCairo .July 31 – A second round of elections are held in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic ); nogeneral elections this time.August 1 –Battle of the Nile (nearAbu Qir ):Lord Nelson defeats the French navy underAdmiral Brueys . 11 of the 13 French battleships are captured or destroyed, including the flagshipOrient magazine explodes; Nelson himself is wounded in the head.August 22 – French troops land atKilcummin inCounty Mayo to assist theIrish Rebellion .September –Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first significant American novel, theGothic 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge andWilliam Wordsworth , inaugurating the EnglishRomantic movement in literature.September 23 –Battle of Killala : in the last land battle of theIrish Rebellion of 1798 , British troops defeat the remaining rebel Irish and French forces atKillala .[ 7] October 2 – TheCherokee nation signs atreaty with the United States allowing free passage through Cherokee lands in Tennessee through theCumberland Gap through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia into Kentucky.[ 1] October 7 – U.S. RepresentativeMatthew Lyon of Vermont becomes the first member of Congress to be put on trial for violating the newSedition Act of 1798 .[ 1] October 12 October 22 – Capitulation of the French garrison atHyderabad toEast India Company troops underJames Kirkpatrick ,British Resident .October 23 – The Ottoman–Albanian forces ofAli Pasha of Janina defeat theFrench and capture the town ofPreveza in theBattle of Nicopolis .[ 8] October 25 – The Ottoman–Albanian forces ofAli Pasha of Janina captureButrint from theFrench after aweek-long siege .[ 9] November 4 – TheRusso-Ottoman siege ofCorfu , held by theFrench , begins.November 8 – Britishwhaler John Fearn becomes the first European to land onNauru .November 28 – Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins whenJohn Leamy 's frigateJohn arrives inMontevideo .[ 10] December 5 –Peasants War in the Southern Netherlands: The revolt is crushed inHasselt ; during the uprising it is estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 people have been killed.December 6 – GeneralJoubert of thePiedmontese Republic occupies the Sardinian capital of Turin.Robley Dunglison born4 January Marie Dorval born6 January Isaac da Costa born14 January Joshua King born16 January André Friedrich born17 January Jane Williams born21 January Charles Davies (professor) born22 January Henry Addison (mayor) born24 January Richard William Jelf born25 January Thekchok Dorje, 14th Karmapa Lama born27 January Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya born31 January John Cochrane (chess player) born4 February Bolette Puggaard born7 February Harriet Waylett born7 February Johann Schroth born11 February Heinrich Beitzke born15 February Friedrich Eduard Beneke born17 February Ann Agnes Trail born17 February Johann Jakob Ulrich born28 February Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau born1 March Gregory VI of Constantinople born1 March Udagawa Yōan born9 March Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe born11 March Elizabeth Goodridge born12 March Abigail Fillmore born13 March Daniel Frederik Eschricht born18 March Gustav Rose born18 March Luise Hensel born30 March August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben born2 April Marie Amélie Cogniet born5 April James Beckwourth born6 April Ramón de la Sagra born8 April Arphaxed Loomis born9 April Fanny Gulick born16 April Antonio Rolla born18 April William Edmond Logan born20 April Adolf von Rauch born22 April Claire Clairmont born27 April William Mercer Green born2 May Charles Kanaʻina born4 May Alphonse Périn born12 May Ellis Lewis born16 May William Branwhite Clarke born2 June Niels Laurits Høyen born4 June Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven born9 June František Palacký born14 June Nabeshima Naotomo born16 June McDonald Clarke born18 June Jan Valerián Jirsík born19 June Walter Hilliard Bidwell born21 June Ditlev Blunck born22 June Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart born24 June Wolfgang Menzel born26 June Gustav Adolf Michaelis born9 July Cyrus Bryant born12 July Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) born13 July Alessandro Antonelli born14 July Gabriele Smargiassi born22 July Albert Knapp born25 July Carl Blechen born29 July Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne born3 August Walker Lewis born3 August Mirabeau B. Lamar born16 August Alfred Ollivant (bishop) born16 August Jules Michelet born21 August Sardar Singh of Udaipur born29 August Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria born30 August Virginie Déjazet born30 August Sophie Esterházy born5 September Kujō Hisatada born5 September Samuel Friedrich Hassel born9 September Philipp Schey von Koromla born20 September Takashima Shūhan born24 September Louis Alphonse de Brébisson born25 September Etelka Szapáry born26 September Bonaventura Genelli born28 September Ange Paulin Terver born4 October John Byington born8 October Ida Arenhold born11 October Pedro I of Brazil born12 October Jesse Olney born12 October Herman Wilhelm Bissen born13 October Łukasz Baraniecki born14 October Levi Coffin born28 October Antonio Cabral Bejarano born31 October Henriette Méric-Lalande born4 November Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry born5 November Eliza, Lady Darling born10 November John Amory Lowell born11 November Abel Hugo born15 November Therese Grob born16 November Angeliki Palli born22 November Hannah Simpson Grant born23 November Alonzo Morphy born23 November Cora Millet-Robinet born28 November Frederic Carpenter Skey born1 December Alexandre-Marie Colin born5 December James Henry (poet) born13 December Joseph R. Walker born13 December Heinrich Smidt born18 December Paul (dancer) born21 December William Clarke born24 December Adam Mickiewicz born24 December Catherine Grace Godwin born25 December 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 )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 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 lastKing of Poland andGrand Duke of Lithuania (b.1732 )[ 13] 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 theNizam 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 BritishRoyal 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 )[ 14] May 19 –William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueler (b.1722 )June –Betsy Gray , Irish rebel heroineJune 4 –Giacomo Casanova , Italian adventurer, writer (b.1725 )June 21 –John Kelly of Killanne , Irish republicanJune 25 –Thomas Sandby , English cartographer, architect (b.1721 )June 29 –Catharina Mulder , Dutch orangist (b.1723 )July 17 –Henry Joy McCracken , Irish republicanJuly 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 theDeclaration 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 )[ 15] 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 )^a b c d e f g h i Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. 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