Eli Whitney's Factory was established in 1798. These are some of the current events going on at the same time.

Politics in 1798

John Addams was 2nd president 1796-1800

1792-1815: Napoleonic war

1798-1800 Undeclared war with France

In May, Napoleon sets off to Egypt to destroy British trade, seizing Malta in June. In August, Admiral Nelson defeats the French fleet at the battle of the Nile, fought in Aboukir Bay. This traps the French army in Egypt. In the autumn, another French expedition lands in County Mayo, Ireland, and campaigns for two weeks until defeated.

The Alien and Sedition Acts pass Congress. The passing of several Alien and Sedition Acts draws fire when Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, is arrested for libeling President Adams. Thomas Jefferson later pardons all those convicted under the Sedition Act, many of whom were Democrat-Republicans.

Congress abolishes debtors' prisons.

January 8, 1798 - Eleventh Amendment ratified

April 1798 - XYZ Affair erupts, so named after three anonymous French trouble
makers

June-December 1798 - Jefferson returns to Monticello for summer and autumn

July 7, 1798 - Congress repeals 1778 alliance with France

July 14, 1798 - Congress passes Sedition Act, calling for imprisonment of all dissidents

August 1798 - Protests held across country against Alien and Sedition Acts

September 1798 - Jefferson secretly drafts Kentucky Resolutions in protest of Alien and Sedition Acts

November 16, 1798 - Kentucky legislature passes Jefferson's resolutions

December 21, 1798 - Madison's more moderate Virginia Resolutions, also in protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by Virginia Assembly

Department of the Navy established after 4 years of having
a Navy The USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") is launched as part of the new US navy.

US Marine Corps Established

Washington comes out of retirement to be Commander In Chief
of Army, insists that Alexander Hamilton is named 2nd in command.

Typhus epidemic kills thousands

1798 England Income Tax introduced; paper money no longer backed by gold

Science and Technology

1798 Henry Cavendish measures the gravitational constant and determines the mass of the Earth

1798 Count Rumford has the idea that heat is a form of energy

First paper machine made by N.L.Robert.

1798: Benjamin Thompson, heat generated equals work done

1798: M. Klaproth, isolation of element tellurium

1798: Humphry Davy, Transmission of heat through vacuum

1798: Benjamin Rumford, experimental relation between work done and heat generated

NAUTILUS submarine, was build by the american FULTON who made divings in La Sein and in Habre.It stayed undersea for 24 hours to the depth of 8 meters.It was armed with an explosive mechanism, TORPEDO -- a box full of dynamite

1798---Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) first measures the force of gravity between two objects in his laboratory.

1798 Phantasmagoria projector photography & film mechanical
1798 Papermaking machine Nicholas-Louis Robert print mechanical

Arts and Entertainment

1798 Malthus, Essay on Population
The Anti-Jacobin

Coleridge & Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

1798 Austria: Aloys Sonefelder invents lithography

1798 Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, the Transformation (September) and Alcuin, a Dialogue (April)

Auguste Comte 1798-1857

Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863

The Creation composed by FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Beethoven's music
String Trio in G major: Hess 28 is a second Trio for the Scherzo 1797 - 1798 Count Johann Georg Browne

9 2 String Trio in D major 1797 - 1798 Count Johann Georg Browne

9 3 String Trio in C minor 1797 - 1798 Count Johann Georg Browne

Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major 1797 - 1798 Countess Anna Margarete Browne

Trio for Piano, Clarinet or Violin, & Cello in B flat major 1797 - 1798 Countess Maria Wilhelmine von Thun

12 1 Sonata No. 1 for Piano & Violin in D major 1797 - 1798 Antonio Salieri

12 2 Sonata No. 2 for Piano & Violin in A major 1797 - 1798 Antonio Salieri

12 3 Sonata No. 3 for Piano & Violin in E flat major 1797 - 1798 Antonio Salieri

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Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor: "Pathétique" 1797 - 1798 Prince Karl Lichnowsky

14 1 Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major: also arranged for String Quartet Hess 34 1798 - 1799 Baroness Josephine von Braun

String Quartet No. 1 in F major: Hess 32 is an early version 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz 2nd mvmt: scene in burial vault of Romeo & Juliet
18 2 String Quartet No. 2 in G major: "Compliments Quartet" 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz

18 3 String Quartet No. 3 in D major 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz earliest of op 18
18 4 String Quartet No. 4 in C minor 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz

18 5 String Quartet No. 5 in A major 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz

18 6 String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major 1798 - 1800 Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz

Concerto No. 2 for Piano & Orchestra in B flat major 1788 - 1801 Carl Nicklas Edler von Nickelsberg