Major Events
- Jan 1 Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
- Jan 8 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
- Jan 22 Coup d'état in Batavian Republic
- Jan 30 Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
- Feb 2 Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
- Feb 10 French army led by Louis Alexandre Berthier captures Rome
- Feb 15 Louis Alexandre Berthier proclaim a Roman Republic after conquering Rome
- Feb 20 French General Louis Alexandre Berthier forcibly removes Pope Pius VI from Rome during French occupation of Rome (Pope later dies a prisoner in Valence)
- Mar 7 The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic
- Mar 9 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US Navy
- More 1798 Events
Did You Know?
Thomas Malthus publishes the first edition of his influential 'Essay on the Principle of Population' (date of the unsigned preface)
Auguste Comte
Charles Wilkes
Pedro I
Giacomo Casanova
Wolfe Tone
Ludwig van Beethoven
John Adams
William Pitt the Younger