1798 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1798?
- February 10, 1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
- February 20, 1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
- May 24, 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- May 25, 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
- May 27, 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
- May 29, 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
- June 5, 1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
- June 9, 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
- June 12, 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
- June 21, 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
- July 7, 1798 – Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
- July 11, 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
- July 14, 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
- August 1, 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- August 2, 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
- August 22, 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
- August 27, 1798 – Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
- September 3, 1798 – The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
- September 5, 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- September 10, 1798 – At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
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