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1798| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1798 | England [poetry] | The English poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads. A collaboration that marks the true beginning of English Romantic poetry, it includes Coleridge's ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. | | 1798 | Europe [clothing and fashion] | The invention of a smallpox vaccination causes the decline of beauty patches – stars, moons, and hearts of black velvet or silk – worn by women in Europe to hide pock marks. The location of the patches had taken on meaning; for example, worn at the corner of the mouth, the patch meant the women was willing to flirt; on the right cheek, that she was married, and so on. | | 1798 | Germany [technology] | German printer Alois Senefelder invents lithography. | | 15 February 1798 | Italy, France [political events] | The French-dominated Roman Republic is proclaimed in central Italy. Pope Pius VI refuses to surrender his temporal power and leaves Rome for Valence, France. | | March 1798 | Spain [administration] | The influential Spanish prime minister and mastermind of the Franco-Spanish Treaty of San Ildefonso against Britain, Manuel de Godoy, is forced to resign, following the Spanish naval defeat by Britain off Cape St Vincent. | | 23 May 1798 | Ireland, UK [revolution] | A rebellion of United Irishmen and Catholic Irish nationalists against British rule breaks out in Ireland. | | 14 July 1798 | USA [political events] | The Alien and Sedition Act in the USA attempts to suppress press criticism of the US president and his administration. | | 21 July 1798 | France, Egypt-Ottoman [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | Napoleon Bonaparte's French army in Egypt, having occupied Alexandria, defeats Mameluke forces at the Battle of the Pyramids. French domination of Egypt is established. | | 1 August 1798 | UK, France, Egypt-Ottoman [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | A British fleet under the English admiral Horatio Nelson destroys the French Toulon fleet in Aboukir Bay, Egypt, (‘the Battle of the Nile’) cutting the French army's communications with Europe and establishing British naval supremacy in the Mediterranean. | | 29 November 1798 | France, Naples [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)] | King Ferdinand IV of the Italian kingdom of Naples declares war against France and occupies Rome. | | 4 December 1798 | Italy [births and deaths] | Luigi Galvani, Italian physician who investigated electrical conduction in living tissues, dies in Bologna, Italy (61). |
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Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Nicasio
Banim, John and Michael
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis and 2nd Earl
Defenders
Enniscorthy
Fitzgerald, Edward
French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)
Nelson Mass
Netherlands East Indies
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Rebellion of 1798
Sturm, Der
Tandy, James Napper
Tauchnitz, Karl Christoph Traugott
Tone, Wolfe
United Irishmen
Wexford
Winter, Peter
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| Monsieur de Valois, one of the movers in the last uprising (during which the Marquis de Montauran, betrayed by his mistress, perished in spite of the devotion of Marche-a-Terre, now tranquilly raising cattle for the market near Mayenne),--Monsieur de Valois had, during the last six months, given the key to several choice stratagems practised upon an old republican named Hulot, the commander of a demi-brigade stationed at Alencon from 1798 to 1800, who had left many memories in the place. And all the time, for more than fifty years, Wordsworth steadily wrote, but it is not too much to say that all his best work was done in the twenty years between 1798 and 1818. |