1798

This page relates to the year 1798 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Americas

Africa

  • Attempt at Francisco de Lacerda E Almeida to connect the Angola to the Mozambique.
  • When Bonaparte unloads in Egypt, the Britanniques require of the sultan Oman to cease all commercial relations with the French and the Dutchmen.
  • Beginning of the reign of Opoku Fofie, asantehene of the Ashanti (fine in 1799).
  • Beginning of the reign of Kamanya, king (kabaka) of the Bouganda with died of the kabaka Semakokiro (fine in 1825). Kamanya reaches the throne after having made put at dead his/her brother with several of his own marked sons to have chosen to support the opposing side at the time of the war of succession.
    • Kamanya created of the bitongole (at the same time administrative and military districts) beside old the saza (units only administrative) and names with the head of the majority of the saza of the civils servant depending on him in the place of the hereditary chiefs. It breaks the ambition of the chiefs of clan by taking a wife in each important clan and by keeping at its court wire of the chiefs ( bagalagala , pages).

The Middle East & Arab World

Europe

  • Italy: Coups d'etat antiroyalists (April 13rd, October 19th) and antijacobins (August 30th, December 10th) in Republic cisalpine. Rising antifrançais in Valteline.
  • Great Britain: Campaign conducted by the Company of Correspondence to reform the electoral system.
  • Poland: Former Jacobins of Warsaw, who claim Kosciuszko and of Hugo Kołłątaj, then imprisoned in Austria, found a secret society which preaches a Constitution inspired by that of year III. They carry out an ideological propaganda and are shown to practice espionage with the profit of French.
  • Russia: The 50 provincial governments are reduced to 41. Manpower of the army are reduced (45  440 men are laid off). The entry in Russia is prohibited with all the French nationals.

France

See also: 1798 in France

Arts & culture

See also: 1798 in music, 1798 with the theater, 1798 in literature

  • the Seasons (1801) and Creation (1798), oratorios of Haydn.

Sciences and technology

  • the French inventor Nicolas Louis Robert builds a machine to produce Papier uninterrupted.
  • the American physicist Benjamin Thompson count de Rumfort with the idea that heat is a form of energy.
  • the British physicist Henry Cavendish measurement the constant of the gravitation.
  • the Consul Bonaparte is presented with its armies in Egypt as a member of the Institut, framed of a troop of scientists (143): 21 mathematicians, 3 astronomers, 17 engineers, 13 naturalists, 22 printers, etc, and among them of the famous personalities like Fourier, Monge, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Berthollet, Vivant Denon, etc He wants to go up that he unloads with an army which represents civilization and known as “that he respects, more than the Mamelukes, God, his prophet and the Koran”.
  • the institute of Egypt, founded by Bonaparte in September, facilitates the drafting of the “Description of Egypt”, which poses the bases of Egyptology (9 volumes).

Economy & Company

  • the British economist Thomas Robert Malthus publishes his Essai on the principle of population where he affirms that the men multiply more quickly than the food resources. Its pessimistic forecasts on a catastrophic crisis of subsistence, which is not carried out, thanks to the movement of the Enclosure S and to the agricultural novel methods.

  • Creation of the Waterstaat in Batavian Republic, organization responsible for the management of water.
  • the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies is dissolved.

Births in 1798

Death in 1798

See too

Be-X-old: 1798 Map-bms: 1798 Simple: 1798 Zh-yue: 1798 年

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