1798

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:
        o 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
   * 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

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