* 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain.

A writer and follower of the philosophers of the Enlightenment tradition of the previous century, Jovellanos had served as Minister of Justice from 1797 to 1798 under King Charles IV of Spain.

However, Jovellanos had been imprisoned by Manuel de Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, who had served as Prime Minister of Spain and virtually ran the country as a dictator from 1792 until 1798 and from 1801 until 1808.

* 1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.

* 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

Minorca was invaded by the British once again in 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, but it was finally and permanently repossessed by Spain by the terms of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.

The 1786 Convention of London, which affirmed Spanish sovereignty was never renegotiated, but Spain never attempted to reclaim the area after 1798.

The territory ceded by Spain in this treaty was organized by the United States into the Mississippi Territory in 1798.

They moved to Bavaria in 1798 and thereafter to Bratislava, and in 1801, she joined her mother in Barcelona in Spain.

However, recent research suggests that the Lodge was founded in Cadiz, Spain, and that Miranda was not amongst its founders, as he himself was living in Paris at the time, from where he returned to London in January 1798.

The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 from land that had been disputed by the U. S. and Spain until Spain ceded its claim with the Treaty of Madrid initially signed between the two countries representatives in 1795.

Sir John Moore, later leader of the British Army, who was killed in the Peninsular War at Corunna Spain in 1809, was governor of the town in 1798.

He was born at Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain, and became a Franciscan at the convent of San Mames, Cantabria, 13 December 1798.

He was British Ambassador to Spain between 1784 and 17867, Master of the Mint between 1789 and 1790, Joint Postmaster General between 1790 and 1798 and Master of the Horse between 1798 and 1804.

In 1798, he complained to the government about four American generals receiving pensions from Spain, including General James Wilkinson.

The first abrogation of a treaty occurred in 1798, when Congress passed a law terminating a 1788 treaty with France.

Delegates of King Louis XVI of France and the Second Continental Congress, who represented the United States government at this time, signed the treaty along with The Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris on February 6, 1778 formalizing a Franco-American alliance that would technically remain in effect until 1800, and the signing of the Treaty of Mortefontaine, despite being annulled by the United States Congress in 1798 and the execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution.

The growing public sentiment against the treaty culminated during the Presidency of John Adams, in the official annulment of the treaty by the United States Congress on July 7, 1798. after the refusal of France to receive American envoys, and normalize relations, during the XYZ Affair.

To further push western interests, they sent representatives to federal treaty negotiations at the Tellico Blockhouse in 1798, frustrating federal negotiators sent by Congress and confusing Cherokee representatives.

On 4 March 1798, the Directory presented this treaty to the Great Council for ratification.

In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham protesting the federal government ; they set up a liberty pole, as people had before the American Revolution.

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

Kingman Reef was discovered by the American Captain Edmund Fanning of the ship Betsey on June 14, 1798.

Palmyra was sighted in 1798 by the American sea captain Edmund Fanning of Stonington, Connecticut while his ship, the Betsy, was sailing to Asia.

Retaliation departed Norfolk on October 28, 1798, with Montezuma and Norfolk, and cruised in the West Indies protecting American commerce.

By 1798, Freetown had between 300-400 houses with architecture resembling that of the American South with 3 – 4 feet stone foundations with wooden superstructures.

* 1798 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( b. 1733 )

* 1733 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1798 )

* September 14 – James Wilson, American politician ( d. 1798 )

* Eli Whitney, holding a 1798 United States government contract for the manufacture of muskets, is introduced by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. to the French concept of interchangeable parts, an origin of the American system of manufacturing.

* November 10 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy ( the Marines are disbanded at end of the war in April 1783 but reformed on July 11, 1798 as the United States Marine Corps ).

* July 20 – Joshua Clayton, American politician ( d. 1798 )

* September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1798 )

Its boundaries at that time included present-day Rockland County, which split from Orange County in 1798 following the American Revolutionary War.

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

After the American War of Independence, the township was incorporated under the same name by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

On a visit to America in 1798, Kościuszko collected his back pay and entrusted it to his friend Thomas Jefferson in his will, directing him to spend the American money on freeing and educating black slaves, including Jefferson's.

* Betsey Stockton ( 1798 – 1865 ), African American educator and missionary

After Dobson's Encyclopædia ( 1789 – 1798 ), it was the first significant American encyclopedia.

Albert Barnes ( December 1, 1798 – December 24, 1870 ) was an American theologian, born in Rome, New York.

* John Kearsley Mitchell ( 1798 – 1858 ), American physician

Theatre historians usually consider the runaway success of The Stranger, the English version of Menschenhass und Reue, in both England ( where it opened in 1798 ) and the United States as one of the harbingers of the emerging popularity of theatrical melodrama, which dominated European and American stages for the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century.

American Cookery, Hartford, 1798.