Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

The first town laid out in the county was North Liberty, established by Lucas Sullivant in 1797, but the first settlement in the county was made in present-day Jerome township by Joshua and James Ewing in 1798.

It was named for William R. Davie, Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799.

Ashe County was named in honor of Samuel Ashe, a Revolutionary patriot, a superior court judge, and the Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

Wallis contracted yellow fever on his return from North Carolina and died in Philadelphia on October 14, 1798.

Wilson died in Edenton, North Carolina on August 21, 1798.

At Albany, New York, 1798, she married William Hallowell ( 1771 – 1838 ), who had purchased his partnership into the North West Company from Henry that year.

* Lady Anne North ( before 1783-18 January 1832 ), who married the 1st Earl of Sheffield on 20 January 1798 and had two children

** William North ( F ), from May 5, 1798 until August 17, 1798

North Brunswick Township was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Johann Reinhold Forster ( 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798 ) was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

* Swinton Park, Yorkshire, North Wing 1798

In 1798, Turner was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons ; he served there from 1799 to 1800, and served in the North Carolina Senate from 1801 to 1802.

Samuel Ashe ( March 24, 1725 – February 3, 1813 ) was the ninth Governor of the U. S. State of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

The runaway success of this craft motivated the Duke of Northumberland to order another boat from Greathead which was stationed at North Shields in 1798 and within a few years he had built some 31 Lifeboats.

Coffin was born in a factory near New Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina on October 28, 1798, the son of Mary and Levi Coffin Sr.

From 1798 to 1800 he served as adjutant and interpreter to Vice Admiral M. K. Makarov, commander of a Russian squadron operating jointly with the British fleet in the North Sea.

Similarly, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, John FitzGibbon, wrote to the Privy Council in June 1798, " In the North nothing will keep the rebels quiet but the conviction that where treason has broken out the rebellion is merely popish ", expressing the hope that the Presbyterian republicans might not rise if they thought that rebellion was supported only by Catholics.

He entered the service again, commanded the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and Army of the North, and was appointed inspector of infantry of the Army of England in 1798.

In 1798 Acerbi travelled to Lapland, publishing his experiences in Travels through Sweden, Finland and Lapland to the North Cape in the years 1798 and 1799 ( 1802 ).

Dr. Francis Lister Hawks ( 10 June 1798 – 26 September 1866 ) was an American priest of the Episcopal Church, and a politician in North Carolina.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

A flow of correspondence between Pfohl and Miss Baldrige resulted in an invitation to the 85-student North Carolina group to play the first concert.

His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

* In 1921, the British were the first to cross the North Atlantic in an airship.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

* 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.

* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established.

The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

* 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

The first book gives a history from 788 onwards of the Church in Hamburg-Bremen, and the Christian mission in the North.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.