1798

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1760s  1770s  1780s  – 1790s –  1800s  1810s  1820s
Years:	1795 1796 1797 – 1798 – 1799 1800 1801

1798 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1798 MDCCXCVIII
French Republican calendar	6–7
Ab urbe condita	2551
Armenian calendar	1247 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6548
Balinese saka calendar	1719–1720
Bengali calendar	1205
Berber calendar	2748
British Regnal year	38 Geo. 3 – 39 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2342
Burmese calendar	1160
Byzantine calendar	7306–7307
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4494 or 4434     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4495 or 4435
Coptic calendar	1514–1515
Discordian calendar	2964
Ethiopian calendar	1790–1791
Hebrew calendar	5558–5559
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1854–1855
- Shaka Samvat	1719–1720
- Kali Yuga	4898–4899
Holocene calendar	11798
Igbo calendar	798–799
Iranian calendar	1176–1177
Islamic calendar	1212–1213
Japanese calendar	Kansei 10 (寛政１０年)
Javanese calendar	1724–1725
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4131
Minguo calendar	114 before ROC 民前114年
Nanakshahi calendar	330
Thai solar calendar	2340–2341
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1924 or 1543 or 771     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1925 or 1544 or 772

Events

• January 22 – Coup d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede makes an end to the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority).
• 7 March – French forces invade the Papal States and establish the Roman Republic
• April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory from Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice made larger to include disputed land claimed by both the U.S. and Spain
• April 26 – France leaves Geneva
• May 24 – Irish nationalists start bloody rebellion against British occupation.
• June 12 – French take Malta
• June 12 – Coup d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Moderates depose Pieter Vreede.
• July 1 – Napoleon's troops land in Egypt
• July 14 – The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false 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
• July 31 – Second elections in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). No general elections this time.
• August 1 – Horatio Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys at the Battle of the Nile. Nelson himself is injured 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

• 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 battles, but no war is declared.
• First mechanical music boxes
• Alessandro Volta and La Place discover electricity
• The Afghans Army occupied Lahore in Punjab
• Aarau is the temporary capital of the Helvetic Republic
• Alois Senefelder invents lithography
• Eli Whitney contracts with the US Federal Government for 10,000 rifles, which he produces with interchangeable parts
• Charles Brockden Brown publishes the first American Novel Wieland or The Transformation an American Tale

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799) Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
• May-October – Irish Rebellion of 1798

Births

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Deaths

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