What is 1798?
{{Year nav|1798}} {{Year in various calendars|1798}} '''1798''' ([[Roman numerals|MDCCXCVIII]]) was a [[common year]] [[Common year starting on Monday|starting on Monday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. == Events == * [[January 22]] – Coup d'état in the Netherlands ([[Batavian Republic]]). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede makes an end to the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority). * [[7 March]] – French forces invade the [[Papal States]] and establish the [[Roman Republic (18th century)|Roman Republic]] * [[April 7]] – The [[Mississippi Territory]] is organized from territory from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]] and is later twice made larger to include disputed land claimed by both the U.S. and Spain * [[April 26]] – [[France]] leaves [[Geneva]] * [[May 24]] – [[Ireland|Irish]] nationalists start bloody [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|rebellion]] against [[Great Britain|British]] occupation. * [[June 12]] – French take [[Malta]] * [[June 12]] – [[Coup d'état]] in the Netherlands ([[Batavian Republic]]). Moderates depose Pieter Vreede. * [[July 1]] – [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]]'s troops land in [[Egypt]] * [[July 14]] – The [[Alien and Sedition Acts]] become [[United States law]] making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false statements about the [[United States government]] * [[July 21]] – Napoleon defeats [[Mameluke]] forces near the Pyramids * [[July 24]] – Napoleon occupies [[Cairo]] * [[July 30]] – [[Selim III]] defeats Napoleon in Egypt * [[July 31]] – Second elections in the Netherlands ([[Batavian Republic]]). No [[general elections]] this time. * [[August 1]] – [[Horatio Nelson]] defeats the French navy under [[François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers|Admiral Brueys]] at the [[Battle of the Nile]]. Nelson himself is injured on the head. * [[August 22]] – French troops land at [[Killala]] in [[County Mayo]] to assist [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish rebellion]]. * [[September 18]] – ''L