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by
Gorgonzola
Wed Dec 06 2000 at 4:18:38
Born in 1798:
French
philosopher
Auguste Comte
.
Canadian
geologist
William Edmond Logan
.
French
painter
Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix
.
German
mathematician
Christof Gudermann
.
Italian
poet
Giacomo Leopardi
.
German
painter
Karl Blechen
.
French
historian
Jules Michelet
.
Scottish
astronomer
Thomas Henderson
.
Polish
poet
Adam Mickiewicz
.
British physician
Thomas Hodgkin
, describer of
Hodgkin's Disease
.
Died in 1798:
(November 19)
Irish
rebel
Theobald Wolfe Tone
, suicide while awaiting execution.
Anglo-Irish
aristocrat and rebel, Lord
Edward Fitzgerald
.
English mathematician
Edward Waring
.
British explorer
George Vancouver
.
Irish composer
Walter Claggett
.
Italian
adventurer
and
writer
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
.
Italian
physiologist
Luigi Galvani
.
Stanislaw II Poniatowski
, last
king
of
Poland
.
Events of 1798:
Heavy-handed tactics against the
United Irishmen
trigger a widespread
rebellion in Ireland
, against corrupt English colonial rule. A desperate, bloody affair, pitting peasants with pitchforks against artillery; 35,000 people are killed during the rebellion. It is led by the United Irishmen under Theobald Wolfe Tone. This organization is mostly Protestant but the rebellion has a wide support throughout all levels of Irish society.
brittanica.com
characterizes the rebellion as a "Catholic uprising".
(March) Most of the Dublin leadership of the United Irishmen is arrested, where Lord Fitzgerald is mortally wounded..
(May 22-23) The United Irishmen manage to raise a rebellion in
Leinster
, which quickly spreads to
Wexford
.
Ulster
and
Sligo
are heavily involved.
Theobald Wolfe Tone
, leader of The United Irishmen, convinces the French to send troops to Ireland.
(June 21) The Wexford rebels are crushed at Vinegar Hill.
(August 11) 1100 French soldiers under General
Humbert
land in
County Mayo
. After collecting hundreds of Irish volunteers, Humbert exhausts his army by marching it across Ireland to attempt
Dublin
. Meanwhile Lord Charles
Cornwallis
is amassing a huge army of Loyalists and British regulars.
(September 16) Humbert surrenders. The French soldiers are allowed to return home; the Irish rebels are hanged or transported to Australia.
Lord Charles
Cornwallis
suggests that an
Act of Union
making Ireland part of the United Kingdom would prevent further rebellion.
(March 5) the French army captures
Berne
, extinguishing the
Swiss Confederation
. In its place, the French Directory sets up a puppet
Helvetian Republic
. All men in Switzerland aged 20 or more are required by law to sign an Oath of Allegiance to the new republic.
Napoleon Bonaparte
, needing something to do to while away the hours, decides that an
invasion of
Egypt
is just the thing.
(June 11) While transporting an army across the Mediterranean
Napoleon captures
Malta
from the
Knights of St John
.
(July 1) Bonaparte lands at
Abu Qir Bay
(
Aboukir Bay
).
(July 2)
Alexandria
taken.
(July 21) Napoleon's army routs the
Mamlukes
at
Imbaba
. Napoleon styles his victory the
Battle of the Pyramids
, and occupies
Cairo
.
Napoleon brings in scientists
who make the first Western studies of ancient Egyptian ruins, and recognize the
Rosetta Stone
as something important when some French soldiers find it incorporated into a wall.
(August 1)
Horatio Nelson
destroys the French fleet at
Abu Qir Bay
. Nelson styles his victory the
Battle of the Nile
.
(September 11) The
Ottoman Empire
declares war on France.
(October 21) An Ottoman-inspired revolt is suppressed with artillery. What worked against the Paris Sections in
1796
engenders the hatred of all Egypt.
The United States is in a fury over
The XYZ Affair
of the previous year, as well as continuing harassment of American shipping by France.
(Feb 9) The
USS
Constellation
under
Thomas Truxtun
captures the French frigate
Insurgente
.
(March 19) President
John Adams
tells Congress that the United States is in a state of
Quasi-War
with France.
(April) Foreign Minister
Talleyrand
orders two members of the American delegation to leave.
(April 30) President John Adams signs a bill creating the
Navy Department
to counter French and Barbary pirate harrassment. Commodore
John Barry
commands a fleet of six
frigate
s and several revenue cutters.
(July 6) The
United States Congress
passes the
Alien Act
, allowing the arrest of
enemy alien
s after a presidential proclamation of war.
(July 11) Congress creates the
Marine Corps
.
(July 14) Congress passes the
Sedition Act
, prohibiting the publication of "false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States".
(December) Talleyrand, needing to have at least one country not at war with France, offers to stop French harassment of American shipment,
without a bribe
.
(December 24)
Virginia
passes a resolution condemning the Alien and Sedition Acts.
King
Kamehamaha
bans all pearl divers (except his own) from
Pearl Harbor
.
Thomas Malthus
publishes his famous
Essay on the Principle of Population
.
The English Romantic Movement
is begun by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and
William Wordsworth
, who publish a collection of
Lyrical Ballads
, including
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
and
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
.
1797
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1798
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1799
1799
1797
St. Michan's
Society of United Irishmen
Walter Farquhar Hook
Alexander Hood
Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Wieland; or, The Transformation
William Abbot
Battle of the Nile
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Edward FitzGerald
XYZ Affair
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Amendment I
Fenian Brotherhood
Synge and the Ireland of his Time: III
John Adams's 1799 State of the Union Address
Motoori Norinaga
Baseball History
Adam Mickiewicz
1205
George Vancouver
Wolfe Tone
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