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.

The town was created from part of the Town of Homer in 1798, before the formation of Cortland County.

" It was embraced in Cazenovia when that town was formed in 1795, and Col. John Lincklaen gave it the name of Tromptown ; but when the act was passed by Legislature, March 15, 1798, authorizing the formation of a new town, and Col. Lincklaen named it DeRuyter, after his illustrious countryman.

The continuing demand for tribute ultimately led to the formation of the United States Department of the Navy, founded in 1798 in order to prevent further piracy attacks upon American shipping as well as to end the extremely large demand for tribute from the Barbary States.

Given that the very Arabic word " riwaya ", which is now used exclusively in reference to the " novel ", has traditionally conjured up a tangle of narrative genres [...], it might not be unfair to contend that the Arabic novel owes its early formation not only to the appropriation of the novel genre from Europe [...] but also, and more importantly, to the revival and transformation of traditional narrative genres in the wake of Napoleon's 1798 expedition into Egypt and the Arab world's firsthand encounter with industrialized imperial Europe.

Even with the formation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798, Boswil remained divided between the canton of Baden and the newly formed canton of Aargau, until the two cantons were merged in 1803 as the canton of Aargau.

Galloway Township was incorporated by the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as one of the state's initial group of 104 townships under the Township Act of 1798.

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

That term was scheduled to expire on March 4, 1799 ; however, on December 12, 1798, the Tennessee General Assembly elected Anderson to the state's other ( Class 1 ) Senate seat, which had been vacated by Andrew Jackson, and was temporarily held by Daniel Smith.

Built in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in Boston, and the seat of the state's legislature until 1798.

In 1798, the state's first governor's mansion was constructed, and Garrard became its first resident.

The state's first governor's mansion was completed in 1798.

The peak was named in 1837 after John Dix ( 1798 – 1879 ), who was the Secretary of State of New York at the time, and later became the state's governor.

The modern jury trial was first introduced in the Rhenish provinces in 1798, with a court consisting most commonly of 12 citizens ().

* Christian Cannabich ( 1731 – 1798 ), Kapellmeister of the legendary Mannheim court orchestra from 1774.

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.

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.

In October 1797, he was licensed to practice law in the court of Kentucky ; appointed Commonwealth Attorney for Campbell County in 1798.

" Around 1798, court records dropped two more letters, and " Bel Air " was born.

By 1798, once more in Munich, he rose to the position of assistant Kapellmeister in one of the most important musical centers of Europe, but in 1807, unhappy at the treatment he received at court and despairing of any further advancement, he left Munich to be Kapellmeister in the smaller and less important Stuttgart court of the new king of Württemberg, Frederick I.

In 1798 he was appointed dramatist to the court theatre in Vienna, but differences with the actors soon obliged him to resign.

In 1798 Championnet was named commander-in-chief of the " army of Rome " which was protecting the infant Roman republic against the Neapolitan court and the British fleet.

In May 1798, he went as the plenipotentiary of France to the court of Berlin, in order to try to induce Prussia to ally with France against the Second Coalition ; this effort ultimately failed.

Marmont had married, in 1798, Hortense de Perregaux, the daughter of Jean-Frédéric Perregaux, a Swiss ( and Protestant ) banker, later a founder and regent of the Banque de France, and Adélaïde de Praël de Surville, herself the natural daughter of the banker to the court of Louis XV, Nicolas Beaujon.

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi was arrested at his court in Liozna and brought to St. Petersburg ( 1798 ).

The name of this court was changed in 1798 to the simpler " The Supreme Judicial Court ".

In 1798, Stone stepped down from the court to serve in the United States House of Representatives for one term ; during the contested 1800 presidential election, he cast his vote for Thomas Jefferson when the election was sent to the House for a final decision.

He became a home tutor, an assistant preacher, an assistant teacher, a subdeacon and, in 1798, a professor and court deacon.

In 1798 Hebel became a professor and court deacon.

In 1798 he was named to a judgeship on the Northwest Territory's territorial court, and in 1799 he won election to the territorial legislature.

In 1798 Müller became court counsellor and was appointed to the court in Vienna, where he was part of the imperial council.

He was also appointed in 1793, a judge of the superior court of Connecticut, holding this office until 1798.

Until 1798, the Abbey of St. Gall owned the taxation, appellate court and the homage rights ( mostly in Täschlishusen at Häggenschwil ) with the remaining sovereignty owned by the County of Thurgau.

The lives of the English regicides: and other commissioners of the pretended High court of justice, appointed to sit in judgement upon their sovereign, King Charles the First, Volume II, J. Stockdale, 1798, pp. 110 – 117

In 1783 he became registrar of the court of faculties, and in 1788 judge of the consistory court and advocate-general, in that year too receiving the honor of knighthood ; and in 1798 he was made judge of the high court of admiralty.

He thought foreign and Federalist elements created the Quasi War of 1798 – 1800, and were behind efforts to prevent the election of Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800.

* 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 ).

The War Department, headed by the Secretary of War, was created by Act of Congress in 1789 and was responsible for both the Army and Navy until the founding of a separate Department of the Navy in 1798.

In 1798, the Secretary of the Navy was created by statute, and the scope of this office was reduced to a general concern with the Army.

In 1798, Oneida County was created from a part of Herkimer County.

White settlers had settled here by 1798, and on October 26, 1799, the Tennessee General Assembly created Franklin and Williamson County.

The Barnwell District was created in 1798 ( effective in 1800 ) from the southwestern portion of the Orangeburg District, along the Savannah River.

Pendleton County was created from parts of Campbell County and Bracken County in 1798.

Mississippi Territory from 1798 ( expanded 1804 / 1812 ), with Alabama Territory created March 3, 1817.

What is now Palmyra was part of Chester Township ( now Maple Shade Township ), which was created in 1694 and was one of the original 104 townships in New Jersey incorporated in 1798.

What is now Shrewsbury Township was originally formed on October 31, 1693, and was created as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Bridgewater Township was originally created by Royal charter on April 4, 1749, from portions of the Northern precinct, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

It became part of Rockland County when that county was created in 1798.

The town was created by the New York State Legislature in 1798, with its first elections occurring in the same year.

Latrobe created designs for Fort Nelson in Virginia in 1798.

In 1798 Cologne became an arrondissement in the newly created Département de la Roer.

In the Landsgemeinde in the spring of 1798, the leadership spoke out strongly against the French and urged the people to take an uncompromising position against the newly created Helvetic Republic and the limited freedom of religion in the Republic.

It is thought that the Bowdoin seal, created in 1798 by Joseph Callender, was a sun because it was the first college in the United States to see the sunrise.

As soon as the number of free male settlers exceeded 5, 000, the Territorial Legislature was to be created, and this happened in 1798.

The idea of an arcade containing shops began in France in 1798 with the Passage du Caire created as a tribute to the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.

Although the 1737 Act created the basis of the fire department, the actual legal entity was incorporated in the State of New York on March 20, 1798 under the name of " Fire Department, City of New York.

Swiss control lasted until 1798 when Napoleon conquered the Old Swiss Confederation and created the Helvetic Republic.

* Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, victor of the Battle of the Nile, was created Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk, in 1798, and ( by this time a Vice-Admiral ) was further created Viscount Nelson, of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk.