* 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 Connaught.

* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

* 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.

* 1798 – Sangolli Rayanna, Indian freedom fighter ( d. 1831 )

* 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( d. 1874 )

* 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connaught.

* 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician ( d. 1840 )

* 1873 – William Tite, English architect ( b. 1798 )

During the Helvetic Republic ( 1798 – 1803 ), the county of Baden, the Freie Ämter and the region known as the Kelleramt were combined into the Canton of Baden.

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

* 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain.

The Virginia Report of 1799 – 1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ; together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and several other documents illustrative of the report and resolutions

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, Thomas Whitcombe, 1816, National Maritime Museum – the climax of the battle, as Orient explodes

#** Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Egypta Bonaparte ( 1798 – 1847 )

The French-sponsored Roman Republic ( 15 February 1798 – 23 June 1800 ) was headed by multiple consuls:

* Francesco Riganti, Carlo Luigi Costantini, Duke Bonelli-Crescenzi, Antonio Bassi, Gioacchino Pessuti, Angelo Stampa, Domenico Maggi, Provisional Consuls ( 15 February – 20 March 1798 )

* Liborio Angelucci, Giacomo De Mattheis, Panazzi, Reppi, Ennio Quirino Visconti, Consuls ( 20 March – September 1798 )

By Mid-March 1798 Aarau was occupied by French troops.

After the French invasion, on 19 March 1798, the governments of Zurich and Bern agreed to the creation of the short lived Canton of Baden in the Helvetic Republic.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.

* 1716 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( b. 1798 )

Only a few weeks later the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson unexpectedly destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ( 1 – 3 August 1798 ).

* 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher ( d. 1857 )

In 1798 Luxembourgish peasants rebelled against the French but the Rebellion was rapidly oppressed. This short Rebellion is called the Peasant's War.

This observation was first made by the French chemist Joseph Proust, based on several experiments conducted between 1798 and 1804.

* November 10 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy ( the Marines are disbanded at end of the war in April 1783 but reformed on July 11, 1798 as the United States Marine Corps ).

Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories.

He commanded the French army which occupied Switzerland in 1798 and established the Helvetic Republic, and in the following year he was in command of the French troops in defence of Amsterdam against the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland under the Duke of York, which was completely successful – the invaders were defeated in the Battle of Castricum, and compelled, after a harsh retreat, to re-embark.

The invasion of Switzerland by French troops in 1798 lead to the downfall of this Ancien Régime.

However, after a failed uprising in Nidwalden in the fall of 1798, Schwyz was forced to hand over all weapons and to provide supplies and housing to French troops.

Although peace was made with France in 1798, the demands of the French Directory, whose troops occupied Rome, alarmed the king once more, and at his wife's instigation he took advantage of Napoleon's absence in Egypt and of Nelson's victories to go to war.

The bishop remained in power until 1798 when Napoleon's troops invaded the Valais and declared a Revolutionary République du Valais ( March 16 ) which was swiftly incorporated ( May 1 ) into the Helvetic Republic until 1802 when it became the separate Rhodanic Republic.

On 28 January 1798, Uri sent troops to support Bern against the invaders.

During the rebellion of 1798, United Irishmen formed a camp on the hill but were attacked and defeated by British troops on 26 May 1798 and the Lia Fáil was moved to mark the graves of the 400 rebels who died on the hill that day.

In 1798 the village housed in turn French, Austrian, Russian, and eventually again French troops.

In the Battle of Nicopolis on 12 October 1798 the 7, 000 Turkish and Albanian troops of Ali Pasha and his son Mukhtar completely overwhelmed the 280 French Grenadiers and their local allies, the 200 Preveza Civil Guards and 60 Souliote warriors under Captain Christakis.

Over the next two days, 13 – 14 October 1798, a major massacre of the French troops and the local Greek population which defended the city took place in Preveza and the Port Salaora on the Ambracian Gulf, starting before Ali Pasha entered Preveza on 13 October but continuing also in his presence.

In 1798 Stans was stormed by French troops, following the decision of Nidwalden not to adopt the constitution of the Helvetic Republic.

Under the Helvetic Republic imposed in 1798 by French Revolutionary troops, Switzerland became a united country.

When rebel forces threatened the Republic, Nidwalden was attacked by French troops on 9 September 1798.

During the French occupation of these islands in 1798, French troops were stationed in the palace and wrought havoc there.

When in December 1798 the French troops advanced on Naples, Ruffo fled to Palermo with the royal family.

Following the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 and Napoleon's defeat of Egyptian forces, which consisted largely of the ruling Mamluk military caste, the Ottoman Empire dispatched troops from Rumelia ( the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire ) under the command of Muhammad Ali Pasha to restore the Empire's authority in what had hitherto been an Ottoman province.

In 1798 French Revolutionary troops, stationed in Preveza by Napoleon, dug into the graves and ruins of ancient Nicopolis and looted various treasures.

On 6 February 1798, French troops marched through the open city gate while the population celebrated their arrival.

This ended in 1798 when Napoleonic troops liberated the town.

The area was under the Bernese Occupation from 1536 until 1798, when French troops arrived.