1798

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  • 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

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