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.

Two years later, in 1798, Rajadhi Rajasinha, 3rd of the four Nayakkar kings of Sri Lanka died of a fever.

*, was purchased on 12 October 1798 and served for less than four years.

The incident was reported in the Bath Chronicle on 27 December 1798: " A child, four years of age of Mr. R. Anning, a cabinetmaker of Lyme, was left by the mother for about five minutes ... in a room where there were some shavings ...

Due to internal instability and French military disasters in 1798 and 1799, the Directory only lasted for four years.

* USS Portsmouth, the name of four ships since 1798

In his later years he was engaged on a work entitled Outlines of the Globe, volumes one and two of which appeared in 1798, and volumes three and four, edited by his son David Pennant, in 1800.

It was popular and was published in many editions, but only four copies of the original 1796 edition are known to have survived The Gleaner, a three-volume book of political essays and plays published in 1798 by Judith Sargent Murray, was the first self-published book by a woman in America.

Born Carlo Bianconi, Costa Masnaga ( Italy ) on September 24, 1786, he moved from an area poised to fall to Napoleon and travelled to Ireland in 1802, via England, just four years after the 1798 rebellion.

When captured the Genoese privateer Liguria on 7 August 1798, Espoirs captain, Commander Loftus Otway Bland, catalogued Ligurias armaments as: 12 long 18-pounders, four long 12-pounders, 10 long 6-pounders, 12 long wall-pieces, and four swivel guns.

Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ".

It extended from a point on the Ohio river one and a half miles above, but opposite the mouth of Little Sandy creek in Kentucky, and extending eight miles ( 13 km ) in a direct line down the river, and from the two extremities of that line, reaching back at right angles sufficiently far to include the quantity of land required, which somewhat exceeded four and a half miles .” additional were, in 1798, granted, adjoining it towards its lower end.

The Navy Department was created on April 30, 1798, four years after President George Washington had communicated with Congress and expressed his alarm at the outrageous behavior of Algeria.

It was the southernmost of four départements formed in 1798, when the west bank of the Rhine was annexed by France.

In 1798 Duckworth led a small squadron of four vessels in the 74-gun HMS Leviathan ( Captain James Carpenter ).

Founded in 1534, it was four times destroyed by earthquakes between 1698 and 1798.

John and Elizabeth Macarthur parented four sons: John, Edward, James ( 1798 ) and William ( 1800 ), the later two being born at Elizabeth Farm.

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

Captain George Vancouver, one of Britain's greatest explorers and navigators, died in obscurity on 10 May 1798 at the age of 40, less than three years after completing his voyages and expeditions.

Although the New England states rejected the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 – 99, several years later, the state governments of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island threatened to ignore the Embargo Act of 1807 based on the authority of states to stand up to laws deemed by those states to be unconstitutional.

This is believed by some to have been a period after the " falling away " when papal Rome came to power for 1260 years from 538 to 1798 ( using the Day-year principle ).

George Hadfield was hired on October 15, 1795 as superintendent of construction, but resigned three years later in May 1798, due to dissatisfaction with Thornton's plan and quality of work done thus far.

The gravitational constant appears in Newton's law of universal gravitation, but it was not measured until seventy one years after Newton's death by Henry Cavendish with his Cavendish experiment, performed in 1798 ( Philosophical Transactions 1798 ).

Carnival celebrations in Venice were halted for many years after the city fell under Austrian control in 1798, but were revived in the late 20th century.

Over the years, the power of the Knights declined ; their reign ended in 1798 when Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditionary fleet stopped off there en route to his Egyptian expedition.

The Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, was passed by the Federalists and extended the residency requirement from five to fourteen years.

More successful was his cooperation with Patrick Colquhoun in tackling the corruption in the pool of London which led to the Thames Police Bill of 1798 which was eventually passed in 1800, leading to the formation of the Thames River Police, which was the first preventive police force in the country and was a precedent for Robert Peel's reforms 30 years later.

After the Napoleonic abolition of the States of the Church ( 1798 ), he was treated by the French as a state prisoner, and lived for some years at the abbey of Monticelli, solacing himself with music and with bird-shooting, pastimes which he continued even after his election as Pope.

A few years after the French Revolution, the Ionian area came under the rule of the First French Republic ( 1797 – 1798 ), and the island became the honorary capital of Cephallonia, Lefkada, and part of the Greek mainland, which formed the French département of Ithaque ( the prefecture was at Argostoli on Kefalonia ).

The papacy ruled supremely in Europe from 538 A. D. when the last of the Arian tribes was forced out of Rome and into oblivion, until 1798 A. D. when the French general Berthier took the pope captive, which history records a period of 1, 260 years.

In 1798, only two years after Warren County had been formed, Robert Moore donated of land to county trustees for the purpose of constructing public buildings.

This ledge, long gone, was the site of 18 documented duels and probably many unrecorded ones in the years 1798 – 1845.

Two families arrived in 1798, but left after about two years.

Willoughby's first permanent settler was David Abbott in 1798, pre-dating Ohio's bid for statehood by five years.

In his first six years as professor, Lamarck published only one paper, in 1798, on the influence of the moon on the Earth's atmosphere.

In Germany he passed the six years from 1798 to 1804 ; and after his return he undertook a geological tour through England.

He later settled with his wife and daughter in West Brookfield where he carried out his duties as Consul and lived here between the years 1794 and 1798.

He was accused of atheism in 1798 after publishing his essay “ Ueber den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltregierung ” ( On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance ), which he had written in response to Friedrich Karl Forberg's essay “ Development of the Concept of Religion ,” in his Philosophical Journal.

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

Martin Heinrich Klaproth named the new element in 1798 after the Latin word for " earth ", tellus.

However, Villeneuve had shown a distinct lack of enthusiasm for facing Nelson and the Royal Navy after the defeat at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.

Charles ' son Ferdinand, though disliked by the population, took refuge in Palermo after the French Revolution in 1798.

The classification of lyrebirds was the subject of much debate after the first specimens reached European scientists after 1798.

For the first time in Dutch history, the constitution that was adopted in 1798 had a genuinely democratic character ( despite the fact that it was pushed through after a coup d ' état ).

Spanish king Charles IV's daughter had been stricken with smallpox in 1798, and after she recovered, he arranged for the rest of his family to be vaccinated.

Napoleon Bonaparte stayed there briefly after taking Valletta on June 11, 1798.

When the Order of St John of Jerusalem left the Maltese Islands, the French took over the Infirmary in June 1798, just after the occupation of the Island by General Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 1798, a warrant was issued for Boone's arrest after he ignored a summons to testify in a court case, although the sheriff never found him.

The academy was closed in 1798 after the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

The flooding of white settlers into the Indian domain was cause for several skirmishes, which eased after the Treaty of Tellico in 1798 ( with an origination point for relinquished land from the Cherokee being the Tellico Blockhouse ) allowed for greater ease in settling the area.

In 1798 the US made this area part of the Mississippi Territory, after cessions from the states of Georgia and South Carolina.

Bowling Green was founded in 1798 after Robert and George Moore donated an additional to to the Warren County trustees.