Editing 1798 (section)

=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|Egyptian Campaign]]: Napoleon disembarks his French army in Marabout Bay.
* [[July 7]]
** [[Quasi-War]]: The [[United States Congress]] rescinds treaties with France, sparking the war.<ref name="Harper1798"/>
** In the action of [[USS Delaware vs La Croyable|USS ''Delaware'' vs ''La Croyable'']], the newly-formed [[United States Navy]] makes its first capture.
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[United States Marine Corps]] is re-established under its present name.<ref name="Harper1798"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/us-marine-corps-17751859-9781472851536/|title=The US Marine Corps 1775–1859|quote=Reestablished in 1798, the US Marine Corps fought in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, both at sea and on land.}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Shubra Khit]]: French troops defeat the Mamelukes, during Napoleon's march from Alexandria to take Cairo.
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The fourth of the [[Alien and Sedition Acts]], the [[Sedition Act of 1798]] is signed into law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]].<ref name="Harper1798"/>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen|The Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen Act]] is signed into law, creating the [[Marine Hospital Service]], the forerunner to the current [[United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps]].
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Pyramids]]: Napoleon defeats [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces near the Pyramids.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; Napoleon occupies [[Cairo]].
* [[July 31]] &ndash; A second round of elections are held in the Netherlands ([[Batavian Republic]]); no [[general elections]] this time.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Nile]] (near [[Abu Qir]]): [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Lord Nelson]] defeats the French navy under [[François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers|Admiral Brueys]]. 11 of the 13 French battleships are captured or destroyed, including the flagship ''[[French ship Orient (1791)|Orient]]'' whose [[Magazine (artillery)|magazine]] explodes; Nelson himself is wounded in the head.
* [[August 22]] &ndash; French troops land at [[Kilcummin, County Mayo|Kilcummin]] in [[County Mayo]] to assist the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]].
* [[September]] &ndash; [[Charles Brockden Brown]] publishes the first significant American novel, the [[Gothic fiction]] ''[[Wieland (novel)|Wieland: or, The Transformation; an American Tale]]''.
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Conscription]] is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan Law.
* [[September 10]]
** The [[Piedmontese Republic]] is declared in the territory of Piedmont.
** [[Battle of St. George's Caye]]: Off the coast of [[British Honduras]] (modern-day [[Belize]]), a group of European settlers and Africans defeat a Spanish force sent from Mexico to drive them out.
* [[September 18]] &ndash; ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]'' is published anonymously by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]], inaugurating the English [[Romantic movement]] in literature.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Battle of Killala]]: in the last land battle of the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]], British troops defeat the remaining rebel Irish and French forces at [[Killala]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Stock|first=Joseph|author-link=Joseph Stock (bishop)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__EBAAAAMAAJ|title=A Narrative of what passed at Killalla, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during the French invasion in the summer of 1798|location=Dublin; London|year=1800}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Cherokee nation]] signs a [[Treaty of Tellico|treaty]] with the United States allowing free passage through Cherokee lands in Tennessee through the [[Cumberland Gap]] through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia into Kentucky.<ref name="Harper1798"/>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; U.S. Representative [[Matthew Lyon]] of Vermont becomes the first member of Congress to be put on trial for violating the new [[Sedition Act of 1798]].<ref name="Harper1798"/>
* [[October 12]]
** [[Battle of Tory Island]]: A [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[Royal Navy]] [[Squadron (naval)|squadron]], under [[Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet|Sir John Borlase Warren]], prevents [[French First Republic|French Republic]]an ships, commanded by [[Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart]], from landing reinforcements for the [[Society of United Irishmen]] on the [[County Donegal]] coast; Irish leader [[Wolfe Tone]] is captured and later dies of his wounds. This ends the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]].
** [[Peasants' War (1798)|Peasants War]] against the French occupiers of the [[Southern Netherlands]] begins in [[Overmere]].
* [[October 22]] &ndash; Capitulation of the French garrison at [[Hyderabad]] to [[East India Company]] troops under [[James Achilles Kirkpatrick|James Kirkpatrick]], [[British Resident]].
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The Ottoman–Albanian forces of [[Ali Pasha of Janina]] defeat the [[First French Republic|French]] and capture the town of [[Preveza]] in the [[Battle of Nicopolis (1798)|Battle of Nicopolis]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Curlin | first = James S. | chapter = «Remember the Moment when Previsa fell»: The 1798 Battle of Nicopolis and Preveza | pages = 265–296 | title = Preveza B. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium for the History and Culture of Preveza (16–20 September 2009) | volume = I | location = Preveza | year = 2010 | publisher = University of Ioannina, Municipality of Preveza, Actia Nicopolis Foundation | isbn = 978-960-99475-1-0}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; The Ottoman–Albanian forces of [[Ali Pasha of Janina]] capture [[Butrint]] from the [[First French Republic|French]] after a [[Siege of Butrint (1798)|week-long siege]].<ref>{{Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους|volume=11 |last=Moschonas |first=Nikolaos |pages=382–402 |chapter=Τα Ιόνια Νησιά κατά την περίοδο 1797-1821 |trans-chapter=The Ionian Islands in the period 1797-1821}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Corfu (1798–99)|Russo-Ottoman siege]] of [[Corfu (city)|Corfu]], held by the [[First French Republic|French]], begins.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; British [[Whaling|whaler]] [[John Fearn (whaler)|John Fearn]] becomes the first European to land on [[Nauru]].
* [[November 28]] &ndash; Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when [[John Leamy (merchant)|John Leamy]]'s frigate ''John'' arrives in [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chandler|first=Charles L.|date=June 1953|title=Catholic Merchants of Early Philadelphia|journal=Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia|volume=64|issue=2|pages=94–103|jstor=44210305}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Peasants' War (1798)|Peasants War]] in the Southern Netherlands: The revolt is crushed in [[Hasselt]]; during the uprising it is estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 people have been killed.
* [[December 6]] &ndash; General [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert|Joubert]] of the [[Piedmontese Republic]] occupies the Sardinian capital of Turin.