History
1798
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: WRiters sinclude Charles Brockden Brown, Ugo Foscolo, Kotzebue, Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads (starts romantic poetry),
TR Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population, Johann Cotta
Music includes Haydn
- Medicine: Jenner invents smallpox vaccine
- Technology: Senefelder invents lithography
Rolled paper invented
Eli Whitney pioneers mass-produced guns with interchangeable parts
- Transportation: First female balloon pilot
- Deaths: Adventurer Casanova, Stanislas II Poniatowski of Poland, Physiologist Luigi Galvani, Catherine the Great
Africa
- Egypt: French expedition overruns Egypt defeating Mamlukes - Battle of the Pyramids makes Napoleon master
Alexandria occupied
Rosetta Stone discovered
British defeat French in Battle of the Nile (Aboukir Bay)
- Kenya: Tsavo lion attacks
Americas
- Canada: Irish emigration to Canada begins
Asia
- Ceylon: (Sri Lanka) Becomes Crown Colony of Britain
Europe
- General: France annexes left bank of Rhine
Start of Second Coalition against France
- France: Napoleon leads conquest of Europe
Napoleon's army sees palm trees and lakes that turned out to be a mirage (Egypt)
- German States: French troops press into Germany
- Great Britain: Horatio Nelson destroys French fleet in Abukir Bay Egypt
Treaty of Hyderabad between Britain and the Nizam
Income tax of 10 percent of all incomes over 200 pounds introduced in Britain as wartime measure
Smallpox outbreak
- Ireland: Wolfe Tone organizes Irish revolt at VInegar Hill against English rule - fails and some leaders executed
French force lands in Ireland but fails to invade the country
- Italian States: French capture Rome – proclaim Roman Republic – Pope Pius VI leaves the city for Valence
King Ferdinand IV of Naples declares war on France and enters Rome - French recapture city
- Malta: Seized by French
- Poland: Death of Stanislas II Poniatowski the last independent King of Poland
- Russia: Death of Catherine the Great
- Switzerland: Lemanic Republic proclaimed in Geneva, Helvetian Republic proclaimed in Bern
Middle East
Pacific
- General: Strait between Australia and Tasmania navigated
President:
Pres: John Adams
General
- Law: Federalists pass Alien and Sedition acts - Alien increases naturalization from 5 to 14 years and allowing expulsion of foreigners -
Sedition allows imprisonment for speech against the government - many states declare unconstitutional
11th Amendment - suits against states
- Military: Navy created - 80 French vessels captured in quasi-war with French to 1800
- Weather: 18 inches of snow in November marks beginning of "Long Winter of 1798-09"
East
- Pennsylvania: Yellow Fever outbreak