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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1798. 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Hurries) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the...
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    The 1798–99 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...
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    Cairo 3 Alexandria 2 Malta 1    The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was a Napoleonic campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria...
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    voyage in 1798, and spent the rest of her career as a British ship. She was broken up in 1810. During her maiden journey, on 21 April 1798, and just 24...
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    The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. The Naturalization...
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    English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised...
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    republic of the First French Republic. It was proclaimed on 15 February 1798 after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of the French Revolutionary Army...
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    María Amalia, Infanta of Spain (9 January 1779 in Madrid – 22 July 1798 in Madrid), was a Spanish princess. She was a daughter of King Charles IV of Spain...
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    The 1798–99 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 24, 1798 in New York and August...
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  • ownership at Nantes in February 1796 she returned to privateering. On 16 March 1798 HMS Magnanime was escorting a small convoy when she spied a privateer lurking...
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  • on 24 November 1798 between the Sikh forces led by Ranjit Singh and the Afghan forces led by Zaman Shah Durrani. On 24 November 1798 Zaman Shah, occupying...
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    Archduchess Maria Luisa of Austria (30 August 1798 – 15 June 1857) was an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, as the daughter of Ferdinand...
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  • HMS Mermaid was a gunvessel purchased in Honduras in 1798 for local use. She was sloop-rigged, armed with one long 9-pounder gun and had a crew of 25 men...
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    Fredericka of Anhalt-Dessau (German: Luise Friederike von Anhalt-Dessau) (1 March 1798 – 11 June 1858) was a member of the House of Ascania and a Princess of Anhalt-Dessau...
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    Vanguard, were to be dispatched to Cadiz to reinforce the fleet. On 28 March 1798, Nelson hoisted his flag and sailed to join Earl St Vincent. St Vincent sent...
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    as Gozo, was an unrecognised state located on the island of Gozo between 1798 and 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was a monarchy recognizing...
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    the best regular British units. The Royal Corsican Rangers were formed in 1798 from among Corsican exiles on Menorca. After being disbanded during the Peace...
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    gathered by the French Directory to send on the expedition to Ottoman Egypt in 1798. The expedition had the intention of barring Great Britain's route to its...
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    The siege of Corfu (November 1798 – March 1799) was a military operation by a joint Russian and Turkish fleet against French troops occupying the island...
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  • stationed in the barracks of Carnew Castle, County Wicklow, Ireland on 25 May 1798. The Society of United Irishmen having failed to advance its aims of Catholic...
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    of the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802). Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global...
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  • 1798 – The First Year of Liberty is an album of traditional Irish songs relating to the 1798 rebellion by the United Irishmen. All songs are sung by Frank...
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  • Edwyn Burnaby (29 September 1798 – 18 July 1867) of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, was an English landowner, courtier, a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant...
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    German: Klöppelkrieg, Luxembourgish: Klëppelkrich) was a peasant revolt in 1798 against the French occupiers of the Southern Netherlands, a region which...
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    Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva, kasa-]; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography...
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    a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1798. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...
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  • Legislative elections were held in France between 9 and 18 April 1798 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council...
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    Cantons'; from 1353 to 1481) and Dreizehn Orte ('Thirteen Cantons', from 1513 to 1798). Each canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy, formerly also Ort ('lieu/locality'...
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    second-rate ship of the line of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on...
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