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Historical Event(s)
– Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
– Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
– The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
– The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country’s domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels preying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast.
– The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
– Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
– The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
– French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
– French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
– Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
Who Were Born On ?
– Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
– Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
– August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874)
– Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
– Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
– Sangolli Rayanna, a prominent freedom fighter from Karnataka, India (d. 1831)
– Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
– Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
– Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)
– Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)