* 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.

* 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 )

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.

Category: 1798 in the United States

The British Army found itself fighting Irish rebels, both Protestant and Catholic, primarily in Ulster and Leinster ( Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen ) in the 1798 rebellion.

He reluctantly accepted, and served as the senior officer of the United States Army between July 13, 1798, and December 14, 1799.

Physical force Irish republicanism as an ideology had a long history, from the United Irishmen of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions, to the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and the 1867 rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

* 1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.

* 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established ; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

* 1798 – The Sedition Act 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.

The most notable examples are the Gazette of the United States, published in Philadelphia, and the Delaware and Eastern Shore Advertiser, published in Wilmington, during the elections of 1798.

That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations, and no other crimes, whatsoever ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that " the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people ," therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intitled " An Act in addition to the act intitled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States ," as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intitled " An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States ," ( and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution ,) are altogether void, and of no force watsoever.

* In the United States, in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited newspapers from publishing “ false, scandalous, or malicious writing ” against the government, including any public opposition to any law or presidential act.

* 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.

* 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.

In 1798, many members of this dissenter tradition made common cause with Catholics in a rebellion inspired and led by the Society of United Irishmen.

The Fenian Brotherhood trace their origins back to 1798 and the United Irishmen, who had been an open political organization only to be suppressed and became a secret revolutionary organization, rose in rebellion, seeking an end to British rule in Ireland and the establishment of an Irish Republic.

On the morning of Pike Sunday, 10 June 1798, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, a force of United Irishmen, mainly from Bangor, Donaghadee, Greyabbey and Ballywalter, attempted to occupy the town of Newtownards.

United Irishmen General Joseph Holt, a participant in the 1798 Rising, was incarcerated in the Bermingham Tower before being transported to New South Wales in 1799.

The new constitutional arrangements proved short-lived in consequence of the 1798 uprising by the United Irishmen.

Theobald Wolfe Tone or Wolfe Tone ( 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798 ), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicanism.

The Liberty Tree sculpture in Carlow, designed by John Behan, commemorates the 1798 Rising of the United Irishmen.

In the subsequent Irish Rebellion of 1798, ultra loyalists were those most opposed to the United Irishmen, who wanted an independent Irish Republic.

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.

The United Irishmen led an armed uprising in 1798 ( See Irish Rebellion of 1798 ), which was repressed with great bloodshed.

After the Battle of Mainz in 1795, the British rushed Hessian forces to Ireland in 1798 to assist in the suppression of rebellion inspired by the Society of United Irishmen, an organization that first worked for Parliamentary reform.

Her colour, white, was worn by the Kildare United Irishmen during the 1798 rebellion and is worn by Kildare sports teams.

In 1798 the United Irishmen, which had initially been an open political organisation, but which was later suppressed by the British establishment in Ireland and so became a secret revolutionary organisation, rose in rebellion, seeking an end to British rule in Ireland and the establishment of an Irish Republic.

On the morning of 10 June 1798 a force of United Irishmen, mainly from Bangor, Donaghadee, Greyabbey and Ballywalter attempted to occupy the nearby town of Newtownards.

* Irish Rebellion of 1798-On the morning of Pike Sunday, 10 June 1798 a force of United Irishmen, mainly from Bangor, Donaghadee, Greyabbey and Ballywalter attempted to occupy the town of Newtownards.