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See also:1796 in France,other events of 1797,1798 in France.----Events from the year 1797 in France.-Events:*14 January-15 January - Battle of Rivoli, decisive French victory over Austria....
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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Events
- 10 February - The Papacy is removed from power by the French General Louis Alexandre BerthierLouis Alexandre BerthierLouis Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince de Wagram, 1st Duc de Valangin, 1st Sovereign Prince de Neuchâtel , was a Marshal of France, Vice-Constable of France beginning in 1808, and Chief of Staff under Napoleon.-Early life:Alexandre was born at Versailles to Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Baptiste Berthier ,...
. - 7 March - French forces invade the Papal StatesPapal StatesThe Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...
and establish the Roman RepublicRoman Republic (18th century)The Roman Republic was proclaimed on February 15, 1798 after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome on February 10....
. - 26 April - France annexes GenevaGenevaGeneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
. - 12 June - French take MaltaMaltaMalta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
. - 1 July - Napoleon's troops land in EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. - 7 July - The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sparking the Quasi-WarQuasi-WarThe Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and French Republic from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War.-Background:The Kingdom of France had been a...
. - 12 July - Battle of Chobrakit, French victory over the Mamelukes.
- 21 July - Battle of the PyramidsBattle of the PyramidsThe Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte, and local Mamluk forces. It occurred during France's Egyptian Campaign and was the battle where Napoleon put into use one of his significant...
, decisive French victory over local MamlukMamlukA Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin, who were predominantly Cumans/Kipchaks The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior...
forces. - 24 July - Napoleon occupies CairoCairoCairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
. - 1 August-2 August - Battle of the NileBattle of the NileThe Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...
, decisive British naval victory. - 22 August - French force of 1,150 men landed at KillalaKillalaKillala is a village in County Mayo in Ireland, north of Ballina. The railway line from Dublin to Ballina once extended to Killala. To the west of Killala is a Townsplots West , which contains numerous ancient forts.- History :...
, IrelandIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. - 7 September - French force crosses the River ShannonRiver ShannonThe River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland at . It divides the west of Ireland from the east and south . County Clare, being west of the Shannon but part of the province of Munster, is the major exception...
at BallintraBallintraBallintra is a village in the parish of Drumholm in South Donegal, Ireland just off the N15 between Donegal town and Ballyshannon. The village is geographically situated in a limestone area and this natural resource is quarried locally for the building and civil engineering industries.Ballintra...
. - 8 September - Battle of BallinamuckBattle of BallinamuckThe Battle of Ballinamuck marked the defeat of the main force of the French incursion during the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland.- Background :The victory of General Humbert at Castlebar, despite gaining him c. 5,000 Irish recruits had not led to a renewed outbreak of the rebellion as hoped...
, French defeat and surrender. - 16 September - Further French force of 3,000 men departed BrestBrest, FranceBrest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
for Ireland. - 12 October - Battle of Tory IslandBattle of Tory IslandThe Battle of Tory Island, was a naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought on 12 October 1798 between French and British squadrons off the northwest coast of Donegal, then in the Kingdom of Ireland...
, decisive British naval victory. French troops unable to be landed. - 12 October - Peasants' WarPeasants' War (1798)The Peasants' War was a peasant revolt in 1798 against the French occupation of the Southern Netherlands, including modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Germany, during the French Revolutionary Wars.-Luxembourg:...
began against French occupation of the Southern NetherlandsSouthern NetherlandsSouthern Netherlands were a part of the Low Countries controlled by Spain , Austria and annexed by France...
. - 5 December - Peasant's War ended with French victory.
Births
- 17 January - Auguste ComteAuguste ComteIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte , better known as Auguste Comte , was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism...
, philosopher (d.18571857 in FranceSee also:1856 in France,other events of 1857,1858 in France.----Events from the year 1857 in France.-Events:*3 March - France and the United Kingdom formally declare war on China in the Second Opium War.*21 June - Legislative election held....
). - 10 March - Pierre Frédéric SarrusPierre Frédéric SarrusPierre Frédéric Sarrus was a French mathematician.Sarrus was professor at the University of Strasbourg, France and member of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris ....
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(d.18611861 in FranceSee also:1860 in France,other events of 1861,1862 in France.----Events from the year 1861 in France.-Births:*15 February - Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 ....
). - 1 April - Jean-Baptiste GlaireJean-Baptiste GlaireJean-Baptiste Glaire was a French Catholic priest, Hebraist, and Biblical scholar.-Biography:Glaire was born at Bordeaux. Having completed a course of serious study at Bordeaux, he went to the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Paris, the courses of which he followed simultaneously with those of...
, Roman Catholic priest and Hebrew and Biblical scholar (d.18791879 in FranceSee also:1878 in France,other events of 1879,1880 in France.----Events from the year 1879 in France.-Events:*1 June - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial , great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist Pretender to the throne, died in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.*Ferdinand Cheval begins to...
). - 17 April - Étienne BobillierÉtienne BobillierÉtienne Bobillier was a French mathematician.He was born in Lons-le-Saunier, France. At the age of 19 he was accepted into the École Polytechnique and studied there for a year. However, due to a shortage of money, in 1818 he became an instructor in mathematics at the École des Arts et Métiers in...
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
(d.18401840 in FranceSee also:1839 in France,other events of 1840,1841 in France.----Events from the year 1840 in France.-Events:*20 January - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.*1 March - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister....
). - 26 April - Eugène DelacroixEugène DelacroixFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
, painter (d.18631863 in FranceSee also:1862 in France,other events of 1863,1864 in France.----Events from the year 1863 in France.-Events:*15 January - French forces bombard Veracruz, during the French intervention in Mexico.*16 March - French siege of Puebla begins....
). - 3 May - Célestine Guynemer de la HailandièreCélestine Guynemer de la HailandièreCélestine René Laurent Guynemer de la Hailandière was a French-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Vincennes, currently known as the Archbishop of Indianapolis, from 1839 to 1847....
, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Indianapolis (d.18821882 in FranceSee also:1881 in France,other events of 1882,1883 in France.----Events from the year 1882 in France.-Events:*28 March - Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical and obligatory....
). - 2 October - Théodore GuérinTheodore GuerinSaint Mother Théodore Guérin , designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns...
(Saint Theodora), missionary (d.18561856 in FranceSee also:1855 in France,other events of 1856,1857 in France.----Events from the year 1856 in France.-Events:*30 March - Treaty of Paris is signed by Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, France, and the United Kingdom, settling the Crimean War.-Births:*1 February -...
). - 8 October - Philarète ChaslesPhilarète ChaslesVictor Euphemien Philarète Chasles was a French critic and man of letters.He was born at Mainvilliers . His father, Pierre Jacques Michel Chasles , was a member of the Convention, and was one of those who voted the death of Louis XVI...
, criticCriticA critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
and man of letters (d.18731873 in FranceSee also:1872 in France,other events of 1873,1874 in France.----Events from the year 1873 in France.-Events:*16 September - German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War....
). - 28 October - Hippolyte François JaubertHippolyte François JaubertCount Hippolyte François Jaubert was a French politician and botanist.Jaubert was born in Paris, the son of François Hippolyte Jaubert and Rosalie Mélanie Cheminade...
, politician and botanist (d.18741874 in FranceSee also:1873 in France,other events of 1874,1875 in France.----Events from the year 1874 in France.-Arts and literature:*23 January - Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered....
). - 21 November - Jérôme-Adolphe BlanquiJérôme-Adolphe BlanquiJérôme-Adolphe Blanqui was a French economist. His most important contributions were made in labour economics, economic history and especially the history of economic thought, in which field his 1837 treatise has been the first major work...
, economistEconomistAn economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
(d.18541854 in FranceSee also:1853 in France,other events of 1854,1855 in France.----Events from the year 1854 in France.-Events:*27 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia and Crimean War begins.*28 March - France declares war on Russia....
). - 4 December - Jules Armand DufaureJules Armand DufaureJules Armand Stanislas Dufaure was a French statesman.-Biography:Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts. He abandoned law for politics, and in 1834 was elected deputy...
, statesman (d.18811881 in FranceSee also:1880 in France,other events of 1881,1882 in France.----Events from the year 1881 in France.-Events:*13 February - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert....
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- Philippe-Frédéric BlandinPhilippe-Frédéric BlandinPhilippe-Frédéric Blandin was a French physician who was a surgeon of the poor, and a professor of surgery at the Medical Faculty in Paris.Blandin is remembered today for his pioneer work in rhinoplasty and septoplasty...
, physician and surgeon (d.18491849 in FranceSee also:1848 in France,other events of 1849,1850 in France.----Events from the year 1849 in France.-Events:*1 January - France's first postage stamp, Ceres, is issued....
). - Louis-Florentin CalmeilLouis-Florentin CalmeilLouis-Florentin Calmeil was a French psychiatrist and medical historian born in Yversay. He was an assistant to Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol at Charenton, where he later succeeded Esquirol as director....
, psychiatristPsychiatristA psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
and medical historian (d.18951895 in FranceSee also:1894 in France,other events of 1895,1896 in France.----Events from the year 1895 in France.-Events:*5 January - The military degradation of Alfred Dreyfus takes place on the Champ de Mars, Paris....
). - Antoine Laurent DantanAntoine Laurent DantanAntoine Laurent Dantan was a French academic sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1828. He is often confused with his younger brother Jean-Pierre Dantan, also a sculptor....
, sculptor (d.18781878 in FranceSee also:1877 in France,other events of 1878,1879 in France.----Events from the year 1878 in France.-Events:*1 May - Exposition Universelle opened in Paris.*10 November - Exposition Universelle closed.-January to June:...
). - Olympe-Philippe GerbetOlympe-Philippe GerbetOlympe-Philippe Gerbet was a French Catholic bishop and writer.He studied at the Académie and the Grand-Séminaire of Besançon, also at St-Sulpice and the Sorbonne. Ordained priest in 1822, he joined Lamennais at "La Chesnaie" after a few years spent with Antoine de Salinis at the Lycée Henri IV...
, Roman Catholic Bishop and writer (d.18641864 in FranceSee also:1863 in France,other events of 1864,1865 in France.----Events from the year 1864 in France.-Events:*10 April - Treaty of Miramar.*Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth published.-Births:...
). - Jacques Bernard HombronJacques Bernard HombronDoctor Jacques Bernard Hombron was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zelee between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of plants and animals with Honoré Jacquinot.-See also:* European and...
, naval surgeonSurgerySurgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
and naturalistNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
(d.18521852 in FranceSee also:1851 in France,other events of 1852,1853 in France.----Events from the year 1852 in France.-Events:*14 January - French Constitution of 1852 enacted by Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte ....
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Deaths
- 25 February - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de NivernaisLouis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de NivernaisLouis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de Nivernais was a French diplomat and writer. He was the sixth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1742.-Biography:...
, diplomat and writer (b.17161716 in FranceSee also:1715 in France,other events of 1716,1717 in France.----Events from the year 1716 in France.-Births:*20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist .*29 May - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist ....
). - 25 March - Michel Joachim Marie RaymondMichel Joachim Marie RaymondGeneral Michel Joachim Marie Raymond , popularly known as Monsieur Raymond, was a French General in Nizam's military and the founder of Gunfoundry Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He was born in Sérignac, Gascony, France, the son of a merchant.-Early life:In 1775, aged 20, he and his younger brother, William...
, General (b.1755). - 1 August - François-Paul Brueys d'AigalliersFrançois-Paul Brueys d'AigalliersVice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys was the French commander in the Battle of the Nile, in which the French Revolutionary Navy was defeated by Royal Navy forces under Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British victory helped to ensure their naval supremacy throughout the...
, Rear-Admiral (b.1753). - 1 August - Luc-Julien-Joseph CasabiancaLuc-Julien-Joseph CasabiancaSee Casabianca for other meaningsLuc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca was a French Navy officer.- Career :...
, Naval officer (b.1762). - 2 August - Aristide Aubert Du Petit ThouarsAristide Aubert Du Petit ThouarsAristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars was a French naval officer, and a hero of the Battle of Aboukir, where he died....
, Naval officer (b.1760). - 30 December - Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-FézensacAnne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-FézensacAnne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac was a French general and writer.He was born in Paris, of an ancient family of Armagnac. He was brought up with the children of the king of France, and showed some taste for letters...
, General and writer (b.1739).
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- Jean Guillaume BruguièreJean Guillaume BruguièreJean Guillaume Bruguière was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.Bruguière was born in Montpellier.He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails ....
, physicianPhysicianA physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, zoologist and diplomat (b. c1749). - Adrien DuportAdrien DuportAdrien Duport was a French politician, and lawyer.-Life:He was born in Paris...
, politician (b.1759). - Louis Joseph WatteauLouis Joseph WatteauLouis Joseph Watteau , known as the Watteau of Lille was a French painter active in Lille...
, painter (b.1731).