- February 17
- Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden in Chester, England. [1]
- February 21
- Freedom of worship established in France under constitution. [1]
- March 5
- Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution. [1]
- Treaty of Basel: Prussia ends war with France. [1]
- March 11
- Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols. [1]
- March 29
- Beethoven (age 24) debuts as pianist in Vienna. [1]
- April 7
- In France, the French National Convention establishes a decimal monetary system. [399.22] [486.32]
- April 23
- William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason. [1]
- April 26
- The French Convention annuls a decree forbidding trading in gold and silver. [401.36]
- May 16
- Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state. [1]
- July 9
- James Swan pays off the US national debt of $2,024,899. [418.44] [677.28]
- July 25
- The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. [5]
- August 15
- French Convention creates new monetary unit, the "franc". [430.68] [474.30] [518.70]
- September 5
- US and Algiers sign peace treaty. [1]
- September 16
- British capture Capetown. [1]
- October 1
- Belgium is conquered by France. [5]
- October 24
- Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia. [1]
- October 27
- Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi River. [1]
- November 28
- US pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis. [1]
1796
- January 23
- Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500. [1]
- February 29
- Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences between the USA and England. [1]
- March 1
- First National Meeting in the Hague. [1]
- March 9
- Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais. [1]
- March 28
- Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is first US-African church. [1]
- April 13
- Battle at Millesimo, Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians. [1]
- April 22
- Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi. [1]
- April 28
- Cease fire of Cherasco. [1]
- May 10
- French Government arrests ten utopists. [1]
- Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge. [1]
- Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam. [1]
- May 14
- Edward Jenner administers first smallpox innoculation. [1]
- May 15
- France and Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris. [1]
- French troops occupy Milan. [1]
- May 16
- Lombardije Republic forms. [1]
- May 27
- James S McLean patents his piano. [1]
- June 1
- Tennessee is admitted as 16th US state. [1] [727.26]
- July 10
- Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer could be represented as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. [5]
- September 8
- Battle of Bassano: French beat Austrians. [1]
- November 17
- Battle of Arcole: Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy. [1]
1797
- January 15
- First top hat worn (John Etherington of London). [1]
- January 26
- Russia, Prussia, and Austria sign treaty. [1]
- February 4
- Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000. [1]
- February 15
- Battle of Cape Saint Vincent. [1]
- February 19
- One-third of papal domain ceded to France. [1]
- February 21
- Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British. [1]
- February 26
- The Bank of England issues its first one pound note. [705.36] [755.48]
- March 4
- John Adams inaugurated as second President of the USA. [1]
- April 18
- France and Austria sign cease fire. [1]
- June 26
- Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. [1]
- October 11
- British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands. [1]
- October 15
- Foreign silver coins except Spanish milled dollars cease to be legal tender in the USA. [443.68]
- October 22
- André-Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump from balloon (Paris, France). [1]
1798
- January 1
- Russia appoints first Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books. [1]
- January 22
- February 26
- British Order in Council directs Bank of England to suspend specie payments (gold, silver) until further notice. [309.73] [602.34] [705.36]
- March 29
- Republic of Switzerland forms. [1]
- April 23
- Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution. [1]
- May 26
- British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara. [1]
- June 13
- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California. [1]
- June 25
- US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens. [1]
- July 11
- US President John Adams signs a bill into law creating the U.S. Marines. [1] [438.70]
- July 14
- First direct US federal tax on the states: on dwellings, land and slaves. [1]
- July 23
- Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt. [1]
- August 1
- British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French fleet at Battle of Nile, Egypt. [1] [696.24]
- August 31
- $162,821 is stolen at night from vaults of the Bank of Pennsylvania, the first bank robbery in the USA. [497.56]
- September 10
- British Hondurus beats Spain in battle of Saint George. [1]
- December 4
- Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt. [1]
- December 5
- Government troops occupy Hasselt. [1]
- December 24
- Russia and England sign Second anti-French Coalition. [1]
1799
- January 9
- Great Britain passes world's first general income tax bill as a war measure. [629.42]
- January 14
- King of Naples flees before the advancing French armies. [1]
- January 21
- Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced. [1]
- February 9
- USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies. [1]
- March 6
- Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine. [1]
- March 12
- Austria declares war on France. [1]
- April 20
- Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews. [1]
- July 25
- French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir. [1]
- November 9
- Napoleon becomes dictator (first consul) of France. [1]
- December 10
- Metric system established in France. [1]
- December 14
- George Washington, first President of the USA (1789-97), dies at Mount Vernon, Virginia, at age 67. [1] [5] [558.64] [765.40]
- December 24
- Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered. [1]
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