1798 in Great Britain

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1798 in Great Britain:

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Events from the year 1798 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Unknown dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Events

• 18 September - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

[edit] Unknown dates

• The first (anonymous) publication occurs of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus.
• Edward Jenner publishes a work on vaccination — An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ.^[1]

[edit] Births

• 28 April - Duncan Forbes, linguist (d. 1868)
• William Abbot, actor (d. 1843)

[edit] Deaths

• 12 May - George Vancouver, explorer (b. 1757)
• 19 May - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, dueler (b. 1722)
• 25 June - Thomas Sandby, cartographer and architect (b. 1721)

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[edit] See also

• List of years in Great Britain