Year
1798 (
MDCCXCVIII) was a
common year starting on
Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on
Friday of the 11-day slower
Julian
calendar).
Events of 1798
January–June
July–December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- January 14 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch
politician (d. 1872)
- January 17 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (d. 1857)
- January 20 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of the
Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
- March 13 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United
States
- April 2 – August Heinrich
Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
- April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d.
1863)
- April 28 – Duncan Forbes, British linguist (d.
1868)
- June 12 – William Abbot, English actor (d. 1843)
- June 14 – František Palacký, Czech
historian and politician (d. 1876)
- June 29 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (d.
1837)
- October 2 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d.
1849)
- December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1855)
- See also :Category: 1798
births.
Deaths
- February 25 – Louis-Jules
Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer
(b. 1716)
- April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b.
1725)
- April 29 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German
entomologist (b. 1723)
- May 19 – William Byron, 5th Baron
Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
- June 4 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and
writer (b. 1725)
- June 21 – John Kelly of Killanne, Irish
republican
- June 25 – Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and
architect (b. 1721)
- July 17 – Henry Joy McCracken, Irish
republican
- July 21 –
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt,
Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
- August 1 – François-Paul Brueys
D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- August 18 – John Lewis Gervais, Revolutionary
Provincial Congress 1775. State’s Committee of Safety from 1775 to
1781. South Carolina’s Senate in 1781 and 1782. Continental
Congress 1782 and 1783. Died in Charleston, S.C. (b. 1741)
- August 21 – James Wilson, American politician (b. 1742)
- August 24 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman
(b. 1709)
- September 21 – George Read, American lawyer and signer
of the Declaration of
Independence (b. 1733)
- November 19 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican
(b. 1737)
- December 4 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1763)
- See also :Category: 1798
deaths.