July.E2.80.93December 1798

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august 1: battle of nile.



august 1 – battle of nile (near abu qir): lord nelson defeats french navy under admiral brueys; nelson himself wounded in head.
august 22 – french troops land @ kilcummin in county mayo, assist irish rebellion.
september – charles brockden brown publishes first significant american novel, gothic fiction wieland: or, transformation; american tale.
september 5 – conscription made mandatory in france, jourdan law.
september 10 – piedmontese republic declared in territory of piedmont.
september 10 – battle of st. george s caye: off coast of british honduras (now belize), group of british nationals , african slaves defeat force sent mexico drive them out.
september 18 – lyrical ballads published anonymously samuel taylor coleridge , william wordsworth, inaugurating english romantic movement in literature.
october 12

battle of tory island: british royal navy squadron, under sir john borlase warren, prevents french republican ships, commanded jean-baptiste-françois bompart, landing reinforcements society of united irishmen on donegal coast; irish leader wolfe tone captured, , later dies of wounds.
peasants war against french occupiers of southern netherlands begins in overmere.


november 4 – russo-ottoman siege of corfu begins.
november 8 – british whaler john fearn becomes first european land on nauru.
december 5 – peasants war in southern netherlands: revolt crushed in hasselt; during uprising estimated 5,000 10,000 people have been killed.
december 6 – general joubert of piedmontese republic occupies sardinian capital of turin.






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