1798

Events

Alessandro Volta and La Place discover electricity
The Afghans Army occupied Lahore in Punjab
February-October - Irish Rebellion
May 24 - Irish Rebellion: Irish nationalists rebel against British occupation forces believing that French troops were going to invade Ireland.
June 12 - French take Malta
June 13 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
July - Napoleon invades Egypt
July 7 - Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
July 14 - The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
August 2 - Horatio Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys at the Battle of the Nile
September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
first (anonymous) publication of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer, begins editing journals about navigation and the geographic positions of cities.
X, Y, Z Affair in the U.S., followed by naval skirmishes but no war is declared.

1798 in literature:
- September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
1798 in science
1798 in music