In the year 1798, French forces invade the Papal States and establish the (very short-lived) Roman Republic (Mar 7), the Naturalization Act of 1798 is signed into law, requiring immigrants to wait 14 years rather than five to become naturalized citizens of the United States (Jun 18), Napoleon occupies Cairo (Jul 24), conscription is made mandatory in France (Sep 5), Peasants' War against the French occupiers in Southern Netherlands begins (Oct 12), lithography is invented - and all these fine people were born:

1798-xxxx Kyriakos Pittakis* archaeologist - Athens, Greece (1863/65) 1798-0114 Johan Rudolph Thorbecke* liberal statesman - Zwolle, Netherlands (1872/74) 1798-0119 Auguste Comte* philosopher/writer/formulated the doctrine of positivism - Montpellier, France (1857/59) 1798-0120 Anson Jones* physician/President of the Republic of Texas - Great Barrington, MA USA (1858/59) 1798-0211 Johan Granlund* judge/senator - Koivulahti, Sweden-Finland (1876/77) 1798-0309 Mathilda Berwald* (b Cohn) Finnish-Swedish concert singer - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1877/79) 1798-0311 Gustaf Wilhelm Wirenius* priest/newspaper editor - Säkkijärvi, Sweden-Finland (1846/48) 1798-0401 Johan Grönfeldt* merchant/millowner/shipowner - Pori, Sweden-Finland (1848/50) 1798-0402 Joseph Joachim Alcenius* physician/active also in Paris - Kälviä, Sweden-Finland (1853/54) 1798-0402 August Heinrich Hoffmann* German poet (Das Lied der Deutschen, part of the national anthem of Germany) - Fallersleben, Holy Roman Empire (1874/75) 1798-0426 Eugène Delacroix* painter/ muralist – Saint-Maurice, France (1863/65) 1798-0520 Heinrich August Wilhelm Stolze* teacher/founder of stenography - Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (1867/68) 1798-0612 William Abbot* actor - Chelsea, England (1843/52) 1798-0714 Alessandro Antonelli* architect - Ghemme, Italy (1888/90) 1798-0724 John Adams Dix* military officer/politician/Governor of New York - Boscawen, NH USA (1879/80) 1798-0731 1798-0801 1798-0817 Anton Delvig* poet/journalist - Moscow, Russian Empire (1831/32) 1798-0817 Thomas Hodgkin* physician/ pathologist – Pentonville, Middlesex, England (1866/67) 1798-0911 Franz Ernst Neumann* mineralogist/physicist/mathematician - Joachimsthal, Holy Roman Empire (1895/96) 1798-0912 Hans Nyman* teacher/vicar/ writer - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1850/51) 1798-1012 Pedro I of Brazil* the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil - Queluz Palace, Lisbon, Portugal (1834/35) 1798-1224 Adam Mickiewicz* Polish poet/political activist/regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus – Zaosie, Russian Empire (1855/56) 1798-1231 Friedrich Robert Faehlmann* writer/physician/philologist – Ao Manor, Estonia, Russian Empire (1850/51) Updated 15.10.2023-2 Search for another year here