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1798

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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August 1: Britain's Royal Navy, led by Lord Nelson, defeats French in Battle of the Nile.
1798 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1798
MDCCXCVIII
French Republican calendar6–7
Ab urbe condita2551
Armenian calendar1247
ԹՎ ՌՄԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6548
Balinese saka calendar1719–1720
Bengali calendar1205
Berber calendar2748
British Regnal year38 Geo. 3 – 39 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2342
Burmese calendar1160
Byzantine calendar7306–7307
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4495 or 4288
    — to —
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4496 or 4289
Coptic calendar1514–1515
Discordian calendar2964
Ethiopian calendar1790–1791
Hebrew calendar5558–5559
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1854–1855
 - Shaka Samvat1719–1720
 - Kali Yuga4898–4899
Holocene calendar11798
Igbo calendar798–799
Iranian calendar1176–1177
Islamic calendar1212–1213
Japanese calendarKansei 10
(寛政10年)
Javanese calendar1724–1725
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4131
Minguo calendar114 before ROC
民前114年
Nanakshahi calendar330
Thai solar calendar2340–2341
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1924 or 1543 or 771
    — to —
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1925 or 1544 or 772
February 15: French troops enter Rome.

1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1798th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 798th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1798, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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Births

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Robley Dunglison born 4 January
Marie Dorval born 6 January
Isaac da Costa born 14 January
Joshua King born 16 January
André Friedrich born 17 January
Jane Williams born 21 January
Charles Davies (professor) born 22 January
Henry Addison (mayor) born 24 January
Richard William Jelf born 25 January
Thekchok Dorje, 14th Karmapa Lama born 27 January
Ana Gruzinskaya Tolstaya born 31 January
John Cochrane (chess player) born 4 February
Bolette Puggaard born 7 February
Harriet Waylett born 7 February
Johann Schroth born 11 February
Heinrich Beitzke born 15 February
Friedrich Eduard Beneke born 17 February
Ann Agnes Trail born 17 February
Johann Jakob Ulrich born 28 February
Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau born 1 March
Gregory VI of Constantinople born 1 March
Udagawa Yōan born 9 March
Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe born 11 March
Elizabeth Goodridge born 12 March
Abigail Fillmore born 13 March
Daniel Frederik Eschricht born 18 March
Gustav Rose born 18 March
Luise Hensel born 30 March
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben born 2 April
Marie Amélie Cogniet born 5 April
James Beckwourth born 6 April
Ramón de la Sagra born 8 April
Arphaxed Loomis born 9 April
Fanny Gulick born 16 April
Antonio Rolla born 18 April
William Edmond Logan born 20 April
Adolf von Rauch born 22 April
Claire Clairmont born 27 April
William Mercer Green born 2 May
Charles Kanaʻina born 4 May
Alphonse Périn born 12 May
Ellis Lewis born 16 May
William Branwhite Clarke born 2 June
Niels Laurits Høyen born 4 June
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven born 9 June
František Palacký born 14 June
Nabeshima Naotomo born 16 June
McDonald Clarke born 18 June
Jan Valerián Jirsík born 19 June
Walter Hilliard Bidwell born 21 June
Ditlev Blunck born 22 June
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart born 24 June
Wolfgang Menzel born 26 June
Gustav Adolf Michaelis born 9 July
Cyrus Bryant born 12 July
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) born 13 July
Alessandro Antonelli born 14 July
Gabriele Smargiassi born 22 July
Albert Knapp born 25 July
Carl Blechen born 29 July
Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne born 3 August
Walker Lewis born 3 August
Mirabeau B. Lamar born 16 August
Alfred Ollivant (bishop) born 16 August
Jules Michelet born 21 August
Sardar Singh of Udaipur born 29 August
Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria born 30 August
Virginie Déjazet born 30 August
Sophie Esterházy born 5 September
Kujō Hisatada born 5 September
Samuel Friedrich Hassel born 9 September
Philipp Schey von Koromla born 20 September
Takashima Shūhan born 24 September
Louis Alphonse de Brébisson born 25 September
Etelka Szapáry born 26 September
Bonaventura Genelli born 28 September
Ange Paulin Terver born 4 October
John Byington born 8 October
Ida Arenhold born 11 October
Pedro I of Brazil born 12 October
Jesse Olney born 12 October
Herman Wilhelm Bissen born 13 October
Łukasz Baraniecki born 14 October
Levi Coffin born 28 October
Antonio Cabral Bejarano born 31 October
Henriette Méric-Lalande born 4 November
Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry born 5 November
Eliza, Lady Darling born 10 November
John Amory Lowell born 11 November
Abel Hugo born 15 November
Therese Grob born 16 November
Angeliki Palli born 22 November
Hannah Simpson Grant born 23 November
Alonzo Morphy born 23 November
Cora Millet-Robinet born 28 November
Frederic Carpenter Skey born 1 December
Alexandre-Marie Colin born 5 December
James Henry (poet) born 13 December
Joseph R. Walker born 13 December
Heinrich Smidt born 18 December
Paul (dancer) born 21 December
William Clarke born 24 December
Adam Mickiewicz born 24 December
Catherine Grace Godwin born 25 December

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October

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November

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Deaths

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Giacomo Casanova
Wolfe Tone

References

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