List of 1798 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1798
Date | Event |
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January 4, 1798 | Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. |
February 15, 1798 | The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier. |
February 20, 1798 | Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. |
April 7, 1798 | The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812. |
May 7, 1798 | French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses. |
May 24, 1798 | The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. |
May 25, 1798 | United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place. |
May 27, 1798 | The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia. |
May 29, 1798 | United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are executed as rebels by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland. |
June 5, 1798 | The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. |
June 9, 1798 | Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield. |
June 12, 1798 | Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch. |
June 21, 1798 | Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. |
July 7, 1798 | As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War". |
July 11, 1798 | The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. |
July 14, 1798 | The Sedition Act of 1798 becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. |
July 21, 1798 | French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids. |
August 1, 1798 | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. |
August 2, 1798 | French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory. |
August 17, 1798 | The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. |
August 22, 1798 | French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion. |
August 27, 1798 | Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht. |
August 31, 1798 | Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht. |
September 3, 1798 | The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize. |
September 5, 1798 | Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. |
September 10, 1798 | At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain. |
October 12, 1798 | Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War. |
November 4, 1798 | The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu begins. |
November 28, 1798 | Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy's frigate John arrives in Montevideo. |