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| 1798 |
| | | The US public is outraged by news of the XYZ Affair, in which the French ask for bribes before being willing to negotiate a treaty | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows | |
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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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| 1799 |
| | | The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska | |
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| 1799 |
| | | English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Portuguese prince regent, the future John VI, rules on behalf of his deranged mother, Queen Maria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul | |
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