* 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 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.

* June 20 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot ( d. 1798 )

However he had lost all control of his followers and in one incident, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Lord Kilwarden, reviled as chief prosecutor of William Orr in 1797, but also the judge who granted habeas corpus to Wolfe Tone in 1798, was dragged from his carriage and hacked to death.

Reformist politicians such as Henry Grattan ( 1746 – 1820 ), Wolfe Tone ( 1763 – 1798 ), Robert Emmet ( 1778 – 1803 ), Sir John Gray ( 1815-1875 ), and Charles Stewart Parnell ( 1846 – 1891 ), were also Protestant nationalists, and in large measure led and defined Irish nationalism.

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.

Before he was to be executed, Wolfe Tone attempted suicide and subsequently died from his wounds eight days after the attempt, thus avoiding being hanged as a convicted traitor to the Irish Crown for his involvement in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798 ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 ).

* 1798 Arthur Wolfe, Lord Kilwarden ; June 13 ; murdered 23 July 1803

In February 1798, he went to Paris, where at this time a number of Irish refugees, the most prominent of whom was Wolfe Tone, were assembled, planning rebellion in Ireland to be supported by a French invasion, and quarrelling among themselves.

During the Irish Rebellion of 1798, on 12 October, a large French force consisting of 3, 000 men, and including Wolfe Tone, attempted to land in County Donegal near Lough Swilly.

They are named after the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre that a wolf tone is a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family.

On 12 October 1798, a larger French force consisting of 3, 000 men, and including Wolfe Tone himself, attempted to land in County Donegal near Lough Swilly.

* a bronze statue at the Merrion Row corner of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the leader of the 1798 rebellion.

During the 1798 Rebellion, Theobald Wolfe Tone was held in Buncrana Castle when he was captured after the British / French naval battle off the coast of Donegal, before being taken to Derry and then subsequently to Dublin.

In October 1798, immediately prior to the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars, a French fleet carrying Wolfe Tone of the United Irishmen, plus troops to assist in 1798 rebellion, was intercepted and defeated in a naval battle at the entrance to Lough Swilly.

The town of Bantry, at the head of the bay, is associated with the Irish Rebellion of 1798 as being the place where an earlier attempt to land launch a rebellion was made by a French fleet, including Wolfe Tone in December 1796.

* Theobald Wolfe Tone, the leader of the 1798 United Irishmen's rising

Fitzgibbon was inclined to show no mercy to unrepentant rebels and in October 1798 he expressed his disgust upon the capture of Wolfe Tone that he had been granted a trial and his belief that Tone should have been hanged as soon as he set foot on land.

* 1798 rebellion of Wolfe Tone and the Society of the United Irishmen

Napoleon Bonaparte, with whom Tone had several interviews about this time, was much less disposed than Hoche had been to undertake in earnest an Irish expedition ; and when the rebellion broke out in Ireland in 1798 he had started for Egypt.

At his trial by court-martial in Dublin on 8 November 1798 Tone made a speech avowing his determined hostility to England and his intention " by frank and open war to procure the separation of the countries ".

Then when Tone was arrested and brought to Dublin in 1798, and facing certain execution, it was Kilwarden ( a senior judge ) who granted two orders for Habeas Corpus for his release.

As a pillar of the Protestant Ascendancy and notorious at the time for his prosecution of William Orr, Kilwarden had no motive whatsoever for trying to assist Tone in 1795 and 1798.

Dublin-born Tone led the republican United Irishmen in what he had hoped would be a local re-run of the recent French Revolution ; this was to be achieved with the help of French Republicans in overthrowing British rule ( see 1798 rebellion ).