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1798

• The U.S. government passes the Alien and Sedition Acts, curtailing free speech
• English Romanticism flourishes as a literary movement
• Motoori Norinaga completes his study Kojiki den, which is published in its entirety in 1822
• Thomas Malthus publishes Essay on the Principles of Population
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
• John Banim is born (April 3)
• William Apess is born (January 31)