During the Swiss peasant war of 1653 Langenthal supported the rebellious peasants and supported the 1798 French invasion and the liberal Helvetic Republic.

Struggling against poverty, Patrick learned to read and write and from 1798 taught others.

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

The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

During the time of Ferdinand IV, the French Revolution made its way to Naples: Horatio Nelson, an ally of the Bourbons, even arrived in the city in 1798 to warn against it.

On April 23, 1798, the Staatsregeling voor het Bataafsche Volk was approved with 153, 913 votes against 11, 587 ( i. e. just 641 more people voted for approval in 1798 than had voted for rejection of the previous draft in 1797 ; about 50 % of the electorate had voted.

1798 – 1863 ) fought against the US government during Seminole Wars and for the Union during the American Civil War

Sir Alexander Ball led Maltese insurgents against the French in the 1798 uprising, and went on to become the first British Governor of Malta.

Together with the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ), the Treaty of Amiens marked the end of the Second Coalition, which had waged war against Revolutionary France since 1798.

At the head of an Ottoman army, he fought against the French under Napoleon Bonaparte during their French invasion of Egypt ( 1798 ) | invasion of Egypt in 1798.

" The rebellion against the regime led to an uprising, the Boerenkrijg, but subsequent to the Brigandszondag on October 28, 1798, all resistance was gone.

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.

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.

During the years leading up to the 1798 French invasion of Switzerland, the spiritual leadership of the Canton often preached against the anti-Catholic parts of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 )

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

* Patterson, James G. In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republican, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland After 1798 ( 2008 )

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 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.

* 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.

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

* 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.

* 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.

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

Despite assistance from France the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was put down by British forces.

* 1798: The Irish Rebellion failed to overthrow British rule in Ireland.

* February 28 – United Irishman Roddy McCorley is executed in Toomebridge for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

* Battle of Antrim, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798

* Thomas Russell the United Irishman co-founder who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Robert Emmet's failed rebellion of 1803 was gaoled and executed at Down County Gaol by hanging on October 21, 1803.