1798
Napoleon Sails for Egypt
Thirty-eight thousand troops and a crowd of savants - mathematicians, botanists, archaeologists - sailed from Toulon on 400 ships.
Malthus on Population
A young English country clergyman published anonymously An Essay on the Principle of Population - arguing that population grew geometrically while food grew…
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Federalist Congress, alarmed by French sympathies in the press, made it a crime to criticize the government and empowered the president to deport…
Nelson Destroys French Fleet at the Nile
Horatio Nelson found the French fleet at anchor in Aboukir Bay at sundown and attacked at once, slipping half his ships between the French and the shore.
Lyrical Ballads - Romanticism Arrives in English
Wordsworth and Coleridge, walking the Quantock Hills, published a small anonymous book of poems.
Irish Rebellion
The Society of United Irishmen - Protestant and Catholic together, inspired by France - rose in Wexford, Ulster, and Mayo.
First Saudi State Expands Under Wahhabi Alliance
Muhammad ibn Saud's sons and their religious allies, followers of the reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, raided deep into Ottoman Iraq.
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Frequently asked
What happened in the year 1798?
Saeculum lists 7 events from 1798. The most significant is Napoleon Sails for Egypt: Thirty-eight thousand troops and a crowd of savants - mathematicians, botanists, archaeologists - sailed from Toulon on 400 ships.
What era was 1798 part of?
1798 falls within the Enlightenment (1651-1800). Reason, revolution, and the first global wars.
Which regions saw notable events in 1798?
The events from 1798 span Middle East, Europe and North America.