List of state leaders in 1798

This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1798.

Africa

• Akwa Akpa (Old Calabar) – Ekpenyong Offiong Okoho, King of Akwa Akpa (1786–1805)
• Ashanti Confederacy – Osei Kwame Panyin, Asantehene (1777–1803)
• Kingdom of Buganda – Semakokiro (1771–1814)
• Bunyoro – Nyamutukura Kyebambe III, Omukama of Bunyoro (1786–1835)
• Kingdom of Burundi – Ntare IV Rugamba (1796–1852)
• Kingdom of Dahomey – Adandozan (1797–1818)
• Ethiopian Empire –
  • Yonas (1797–1798)
  • Tekle Giyorgis I (third reign, 1798–1799)
• Funj Sultanate -

1. Badi VI (1791-1798)
2. Ranfi (1798-1804)

• Kingdom of Kaffa - Hoti Gaocho (1798-1821)
• Kingdom of Loango -
  • Tati, the Nganga Mvumbi (c. 1787 - c. 1801)[1]
• Sultanate of Ndzuwani – Alawi bin Husain (1796–1816)
• Wadai Empire – Muhammad Salih Derret ibn Jawda (1795–1803)
• Kingdom of Rwanda – Yuhi III (1797–1830)
• Zulu – Senzangakhona kaJama, King of the Zulu (1781–1816)

Americas

• United States – John Adams, President of the United States (1797–1801)

Asia

• Alirajpur State – Pratap Singh I (1765–1818)
• Durrani Empire – Zaman Shah Durrani (1793–1801)
• Burma – Bodawpaya (1782–1819)
• China (Qing dynasty) – Jiaqing Emperor (1796–1820)
• Jaipur – Pratap Singh (1778–1803)[2]
• Empire of Japan
  • Monarch – Kōkaku (1780–1817)
  • Tokugawa shogunate – Tokugawa Ienari (1786–1837)
  • Ryukyu Kingdom – Shō On (1796–1802)
• Joseon (Korea) – Jeongjo (1776–1800)
• Rajpipla State - Naharsinhji (1793-1803)
• Siam – Rama I (1782–1809)
• Đại Việt (Tây Sơn dynasty) – Nguyễn Quang Toản (1792–1802)

Europe

• Principality of Abkhazia – Kelesh Begi (1747–1806)
• Andorra – Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Bishop of Urgell (1797–1816)
• Batavian Republic –
  • 1. National Assembly of the Batavian Republic (1796–1798)
    2. Uitvoerend Bewind of the Batavian Republic (1798)
    3. Interim Government of the Batavian Republic (1798)
    4. Uitvoerend Bewind of the Batavian Republic (1798–1801)
• Kingdom of Denmark–Norway
  • Monarch – Christian VII (1766–1808)
  • Minister of State – Christian Günther von Bernstorff (1797–1810)
• French First Republic – Directory (1795–1799)
• Kingdom of Great Britain –
  • Monarch – George III (1760–1820)
  • Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (1783–1801, 1804–1806)
• Helvetic Republic –
  • President of the Executive Directory _
    1. Johann Lukas Legrand (1798)
    2. Urs Viktor Oberlin (1798)
    3. Pierre Maurice Glayre (1798)
    4. Frédéric-César de La Harpe (1798)
    5. Peter Ochs (1798)
    6. Frédéric-César de La Harpe (1798)
    7. Urs Victor Oberlin (1798–1799)
• Holy Roman Empire – Franz II (1792–1806)
• Kingdom of Ireland – George III (1760–1820)
• Knights of Malta – Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta (1797–1799)
• Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
  • Sultan of the Ottoman Empire – Selim III (1789–1807)
  • Grand Vizier –
    1. Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha (1794–1798)
    2. Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha (1798–1805)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves –
  • Monarch – Maria I (1777–1816)
  • Regent – John, Prince of Brazil (1792–1816)
• Kingdom of Prussia – Frederick William III (1797–1840)
• Russian Empire – Paul I (1796–1801)
• Kingdom of Spain – Charles IV (1788–1808)
• Kingdom of Sweden – Gustav IV Adolf (1792–1809)
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Ferdinand III (1790–1801)

Middle East and North Africa

• Abu Dhabi – Shakhbut bin Dhiyab, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (1793–1816)
• Sultanate of Morocco – Slimane (1792–1822)
• Persia (Qajar dynasty) – Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)

Oceania

• Kingdom of Tahiti – Pōmare I (1791–1803)
• Tonga – Tukuʻaho, Tuʻi Kanokupolu (1797–1799)

References

1. John K. Thornton. A History of West Central Africa to 1850. Cambridge University Press, 2020, p. 345
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)