Today in History for Year 1798

Months in Year 1798: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 48 of 48

Jan 1st - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
Jan 8th - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
Jan 22nd - Coup of Midderigh
Jan 30th - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
Feb 2nd - Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
Feb 10th - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
Feb 20th - Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
Mar 4th - Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
Mar 7th - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
Mar 9th - Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
Mar 29th - Republic of Switzerland forms
Apr 7th - Mississippi Territory organized
Apr 23rd - Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
Apr 30th - Dept of Navy forms
May 24th - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
May 26th - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
May 27th - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
Jun 5th - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
Jun 7th - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
Jun 13th - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
Jun 25th - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
Jul 1st - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
Jul 6th - US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
Jul 7th - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
Jul 11th - US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
Jul 14th - 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
Jul 14th - Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US government
Jul 16th - US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Jul 21st - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
Jul 23rd - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
Aug 1st - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
Aug 2nd - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
Aug 22nd - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
Aug 27th - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
Sep 1st - England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
Sep 3rd - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
Sep 5th - New conscription law goes into effect in France
Sep 10th - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
Oct 12th - Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
Oct 12th - Friedrich von Schillers "Wallensteins Lager," premieres in Weimar
Nov 16th - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
Nov 17th - -21) Snow storms in New England, 100s die
Nov 27th - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Peterburg jail
Dec 4th - Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
Dec 5th - Government troops occupy Hasselt
Dec 14th - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
Dec 17th - 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
Dec 24th - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 51 of 51

Jan 6th - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer
Jan 14th - Isaac da Costa, Dutch writer/lawyer
Jan 14th - Johan R Thorbecke, Premier of Netherlands (Lib-1849..72)
Jan 15th - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
Jan 19th - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)
Jan 20th - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
Jan 24th - Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)
Jan 24th - Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician)
Jan 29th - Henry Neele, London, poet
Jan 31st - Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
Feb 22nd - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
Mar 4th - John Joseph Abercrombie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
Mar 13th - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
Apr 2nd - H v Fallersleben, writer
Apr 3rd - Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877
Apr 8th - Dionysios Solomos, poet
Apr 9th - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
Apr 11th - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
Apr 17th - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
Apr 19th - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
Apr 19th - Heinrich Maria von Hess, historical painter
Apr 26th - Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
Apr 26th - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
May 14th - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian
May 18th - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
May 28th - Josef Dessauer, composer
Jun 5th - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
Jun 12th - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Jun 21st - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
Jun 29th - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
Jul 13th - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
Jul 15th - Charles H Bell, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1875
Jul 24th - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
Aug 21st - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
Aug 28th - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
Sep 1st - Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
Sep 2nd - Thomas Holliday Hicks, (Union Gov) died in 1865
Sep 11th - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
Sep 17th - Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
Sep 25th - Henri Scheffer, painter
Sep 25th - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
Oct 7th - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
Oct 12th - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Kaiser of Brazil (1822-31)/king of Portugal
Oct 12th - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49)
Oct 28th - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
Nov 1st - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
Nov 3rd - Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), died in 1871
Nov 5th - Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples
Nov 29th - Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
Dec 4th - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)
Dec 24th - Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 9th - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79
Jan 20th - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66
Jan 22nd - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71
Jan 22nd - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
Jan 26th - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
Feb 6th - Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54
Feb 13th - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
Feb 25th - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
Mar 22nd - Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
Apr 11th - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
Apr 29th - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
May 10th - George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
May 19th - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
Jun 4th - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73
Jun 25th - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
Jun 26th - Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56
Jun 28th - Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44
Jun 29th - Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies
Jul 2nd - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
Jul 15th - Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66
Jul 21st - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
Aug 1st - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
Aug 7th - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
Aug 15th - Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
Aug 21st - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62
Aug 24th - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
Aug 28th - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55
Sep 16th - Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67
Sep 21st - George Read, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65
Oct 21st - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
Nov 19th - Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
Nov 30th - Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
Dec 4th - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
Dec 9th - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
Dec 19th - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62
Dec 20th - Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72