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.svg){kind=small} 1798 in Great Britain:
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Events from the year 1798 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - King George III
- Prime Minister - William Pitt the Younger, Tory
Events
- May–September - Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels stage an uprising against British rule.[1]
- 13 July - William Wordsworth's poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 written.
- 1 August - French Revolutionary Wars: Admiral Nelson's fleet destroys the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.[2]
- 22 August - French invasion force lands at Killala in Ireland, capturing the town.[3]
- 8 September - French invasion force surrenders at Ballinamuck.[3]
- 10 September - Battle of St. George's Caye: British settlers win a victory over Spanish settlers in what was to become the colony of British Honduras.[1]
- 4 December - Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax.[4]
- undated - The first recorded excavations at Stonehenge – and among the first serious work in archaeology anywhere – are made by William Cunnington and Richard Colt Hoare.
Ongoing
- Anglo-Spanish War, 1796–1808
- French Revolutionary Wars
Publications
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's anonymous collection Lyrical Ballads.[1]
- Edward Jenner's work on vaccination An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ.[5]
- Thomas Malthus' anonymous work An Essay on the Principle of Population.[1]
- Regina Maria Roche's popular Gothic novel The Children of the Abbey.[6]
- Mary Wollstonecraft's radical feminist novel Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (posthumous).
Births
- 28 April - Duncan Forbes, linguist (died 1868)
- 17 May - George Don, botanist (died 1856)
- 12 June - William Abbot, actor (died 1843)
- 28 December - Thomas James Henderson, astronomer (died 1844)
Deaths
- 12 May - George Vancouver, explorer (b. 1757)
- 19 May - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, dueler (b. 1722)
- 25 June - Thomas Sandby, cartographer and architect (b. 1721)
References
- ^ a b c d Everett, Jason M. (2006). "1798". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 347–348. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 236–237. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.