1798 in France

Events

• 10 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre Berthier.
• 7 March - French forces invade the Papal States and establish the Roman Republic.
• 26 April - France annexes Geneva.
• 12 June - French take Malta.
• 1 July - Napoleon's troops land in Egypt.
• 7 July - The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France, sparking the Quasi-War.
• 12 July - Battle of Chobrakit: French victory over the Mamelukes.
• 21 July - Battle of the Pyramids: Decisive French victory over local Mamluk forces.
• 24 July - Napoleon occupies Cairo.
• 1-2 August - Battle of the Nile : The British Royal Navy under Lord Nelson defeats the French navy under Admiral Brueys. 11 of the 13 French battleships are captured or destroyed, including the flagship Orient whose magazine explodes.
• 22 August - French troops land at Kilcummin in County Mayo to assist the Irish rebellion.
• 7 September - French force crosses the River Shannon at Ballintra.
• 8 September - Battle of Ballinamuck, French defeat and surrender.
• 16 September - Further French force of 3,000 men depart Brest for Ireland.
• 12 October
• *Battle of Tory Island: British naval victory prevents landing of further French troops in Ireland.
• *Peasants' War begins against French occupation of the Southern Netherlands.
• 5 December - Peasant's War ends with French victory.

  Births

• 17 January - Auguste Comte, philosopher.
• 5 February - Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Roman Catholic Bishop and writer.
• 10 March - Pierre Frédéric Sarrus, mathematician.
• 1 April - Jean-Baptiste Glaire, Roman Catholic priest and Hebrew and Biblical scholar.
• 17 April - Étienne Bobillier, mathematician.
• 26 April - Eugène Delacroix, painter.
• 3 May - Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis.
• 9 August - Louis-Florentin Calmeil, psychiatrist and medical historian.
• 2 October - Théodore Guérin, missionary.
• 8 October - Philarète Chasles, critic and man of letters.
• 28 October - Hippolyte François Jaubert, politician and botanist.
• 21 November - Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, economist.
• 2 December - Philippe-Frédéric Blandin, physician and surgeon.
• 4 December - Jules Armand Dufaure, statesman.
• 8 December - Antoine Laurent Dantan, sculptor.

  Full date unknown

• Jacques Bernard Hombron, naval surgeon and naturalist.

  Deaths

• 25 February - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, diplomat and writer.
• 25 March - Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, General.
• 6 July - Adrien Duport, politician.
• 1 August
• *François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Rear-Admiral.
• *Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, Naval officer.
• 2 August - Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars, Naval officer.
• 27 August - Louis Joseph Watteau, painter.
• October - Jean Guillaume Bruguière, physician, zoologist and diplomat.
• 30 December - Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac, General and writer.