In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.

The Colony of St. John's Island was renamed to Prince Edward Island on November 29, 1798.

On November 29, 1798, during Fanning's administration, Great Britain granted approval to change the colony's name from St. John's Island to Prince Edward Island to distinguish it from similar names in the Atlantic, such as the cities of Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's in Newfoundland.

* 1798: Edward Jenner publishes a treatise about smallpox vaccination

* Island of St. John, separated from Nova Scotia 1769, renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798

* James Edward Chandler, 1767 – 1798.

It was renamed " Prince Edward Island " in 1798 in honour of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.

* Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans ( 1798 – 1877 ), politician

Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster ( opposite the future site of the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster ), he was the fourth son of Walter Edward Barry ( died 1805 ) a stationer, and Frances Barry née Maybank ( died 1798 ).

One famous member of the family who occasionally resided in Leinster House was Lord Edward FitzGerald, who became involved with Irish nationalism during the 1798 Rebellion, which cost him his life.

The first use of attainder was in 1321 against both Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh Despenser the Younger, Earl of Gloucester ( they were both attained, not for opposing the King, but for supporting the King ) and the last in 1798 against Lord Edward FitzGerald for leading the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Moore was for many years a strong advocate for Catholic Emancipation which he regarded as the source of all problems in Ireland and the sole reason behind the 1798 Rebellion-a point he made in his 1831 biography Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

* Lord Edward FitzGerald ( 1763 – 1798 ), Irish aristocrat and revolutionary

* Lord Edward FitzGerald ( 1763 – 1798 ).

One of her sons, Lord Edward FitzGerald, was a major figure in the republican movement, and was killed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Lord Edward FitzGerald ( 15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798 ) was an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary.

Lord Edward was among the advocates of the bolder course and there is some evidence that he favoured a project for the massacre of the Irish peers while in procession to the House of Lords for the trial of Lord Kingston in May 1798, despite the fact many were his own relations.

Lord Edward FitzGerald ( 1763 – 1798 ) was born and lived in Frescati House for a part of his life.

One of its occupants was Lord Edward FitzGerald, who became an icon for Irish nationalism through his involvement with the Irish Rebellion of 1798, which ultimately cost him his life.

Edward Burleson ( December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851 ) was a soldier, general, and statesman in the state of Missouri, the Republic of Texas, and later the U. S. state of Texas.

; Prince Edward Island: Named in 1798 after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the son of King George III of the United Kingdom and lieutenant-general in British army in Canada.

* Lord Edward FitzGerald ( 1763 – 1798 ), Irish revolutionary

Edward Hasted, in his 1798 description of Rainham, writes: " The whole of this parish is in the division of East Kent which begins here, the adjoining parish of Gillingham, westward, being wholly in that of West Kent.

Thomas Malthus wrote two books, An essay on the principle of population, published in 1798, and Principles of political economy, published in 1820.

Jefferson wrote the 1798 Resolutions.

Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in the 1770s ; the Honourable Artillery Company had an archer company between 1784 and 1794 ; and a man named Richard Mason wrote a book proposing the arming of militia with pike and longbow in 1798.

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he wrote:

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

Jefferson wrote on February 12 1798:

In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population partly in response to Condorcet's views on the " perfectibility of society " as outlined in the Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.

Johan Rudolf Thorbecke ( 1798 – 1872 ) wrote the Dutch Constitution in April 1848 in his house at Garenmarkt 9 in Leiden.

While in Egypt in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to Major-General Berthier that the

In the winter of 1798 – 1799, Louis XVIII wrote a biography on Marie Antoinette titled Réflexions Historiques sur Marie Antoinette.

While at the school, Stearns wrote and published a number of education-related works, including Dramatic Dialogues for Use in Schools ( 1798 ), a collection of 30 original plays that were performed by the students.

When he was leaving America after a visit in 1798 during which he collected back pay, Kościuszko wrote a last will, naming Thomas Jefferson the executor and leaving his property and money in America to be used to buy the freedom of black slaves, including Jefferson's, and to educate them for independent life and work.

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) wrote the novel The Heart of Midlothian and lived at Lasswade Cottage ( now Sir Walter Scott's Cottage ) in Lasswade from 1798 to 1804, where he wrote his Grey Brother, translation of Goetz von Berlichingen, etc.

Dr. Richard Saumarez, who wrote his A New Physiology in 1798, was clearly indebted to Hunter's idea of the living principle and the many facts of observation he brought to bear on its existence.

In a 1798 paper on the fossil remains of an animal found in some plaster quarries near Paris Cuvier wrote:

In the same 1798 paper he wrote:

He contributed a number of short stories ( 1795 – 1798 ) to the series of Straussfedern, published by the bookseller C. F. Nicolai and originally edited by J. K. A. Musäus, and wrote Abdallah ( 1796 ) and a novel in letters, William Lovell ( 3 vols.

He also wrote a Handbuch der Metrik ( 1798 ).

In 1798, Novalis wrote in Blüthenstaub ( Pollen ):

He wrote " A Secret Plan of Government " ( keisei hisaku ; 経世秘策 ), in which he proposed lifting a ban of a foreign trade and colonization of Ezo, and " Tales of the West " ( seiiki monogatari ; 西域物語 ), both in 1798 ,.

Keir had long studied the mineralogy of Staffordshire, and in 1798 wrote an article upon it for Stebbing Shaw, who was about to publish his " History of Staffordshire ".

Lewis wrote to his father on 23 February 1798, attempting to make reparations: the controversy caused by The Monk was a source of distress to his family.

When the Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which provide a classic statement in support of states ' rights.

Jefferson wrote on Feb. 12, 1798: