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| 1798 |
| | | Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Dora gives birth in Bushy House to Mary, the first of seven children of the Duke of Clarence to be born in the house in the following nine years | |
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| 1798 |
| | | English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Captain George Vancouver, who discovered Vancouver Island and retired to live in Petersham, is buried in St Peter’s | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon leads a costly, unsuccessful and plague-ridden expedition against the Turkish garrisons in Syria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Haydn's oratorio The Creation has its first public performance in Vienna, in the Burgtheater | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon, in Syria, orders 3000 captured defenders of Jaffa to be killed by bayonet or drowning to save ammunition | |
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