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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years: 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 - 1798 - 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803
Events
- Alessandro Volta and La Place discover electricity
- 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
- July - Napoleon invades Egypt
- July 7 - Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
- July 14 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
- August 2 - French navy under admiral Bruyes loses and Horatio Nelson wins 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.
Ongoing events
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
- 1798 in literature:
- September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Births
- January 14 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician
- March 13 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States
- March 30 - Luise Hensel, poet (+ 1876)
- April 2 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, lyricist (+ 1874, writer of "Das Lied der Deutschen")
- April 26 - Eugene Delacroix, painter
- April 28 - Duncan Forbes, linguist
- October 2 - Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia
- William Abbot - english actor
Deaths
- December 4 - Luigi Galvani, physicist\n