1798 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1798 in the Belgian Departments of France. The French First Republic had annexed the Austrian Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium) in 1795 and had reorganised the territory as the nine departments Dyle, Escaut (department), Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Meuse-Inférieure, Deux-Nèthes, Ourthe, and Sambre-et-Meuse.[1]
The year 1798 corresponds to the period from 12 Nivôse of Year VI to 11 Nivôse of Year VII in the French Republican Calendar.
Incumbents
- Directors – Paul Barras, Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Jean-François Rewbell, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, François de Neufchâteau (until 20 May), Jean Baptiste Treilhard (from 20 May)
Events
- Over the course of the year Lieven Bauwens made numerous trips to England, smuggling out spinning machinery a piece at a time.
- September
- 5 September – French legislature passes Law of 19 Fructidor, Year VI instituting universal conscription of all unmarried men aged 20 to 25.
- October
- 12 October – beginning of the Peasants' War (Boerenkrijg) in Flanders and Brabant.
- 22 October – short-lived liberation of Mechelen from French rule.
- 24 October – attempted British landing at Blankenberge fails.
- December
- 5 December – Decisive defeat of Peasant Army near Hasselt.
Deaths
- 24 June – Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (born 1742), former governess general of the Austrian Netherlands
- 21 August – Cornelius Franciscus Nelis (born 1736), bishop of Antwerp.[2]
References
- ^ Charles Oudiette, Dictionnaire géographique et topographique des treize départemens de la Belgique et de la rive gauche du Rhin (Paris, Cramer, 1804). On Google Books.
- ^ NBW