What Happened in November 1798

Historical Events

Tone's Death Sentence

Nov 8 Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone is sentenced to death by hanging for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Tone requests to be shot instead so as to die a soldier's death.

Irish Republican and Revolutionary Wolfe Tone

Nov 16 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
Nov 17 Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
Nov 19 Dutch Rijksmuseum founded in the Hague (moved to Amsterdam 1808)
Nov 27 Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail

Events in 1798

Famous Birthdays

Nov 1 Benjamin Guinness, Irish brewer and philanthropist, born in Dublin (d. 1868)
Nov 3 Mason James Murray, American senator and Confederate diplomat (Trent Affair), born in Fairfax, Virginia (d. 1871)
Nov 5 Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry and Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who led an unsuccessful rebellion against French King Louis-Philippe I, born in Caserta Palace, Caserta, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1870)
Nov 29 Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)

Born in 1798