1799

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1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
March 7 - Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
July 15 - In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
August 27 - British and Russian expedition to the Batavian Republic (now the Netherlands).
August 30 - British forces under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell capture the entire Dutch fleet.
November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
October 9 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, a famous treasure wreck.
October 18 - Capitulation of Anglo-Russian expedition forces in Holland.
December - Napoleon becomes First Consul.
The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes.
The American System of manufacturing is invented.
The small town of Tignish, PE, Canada is founded.

January 6 - Jedediah Smith, American fur trapper and explorer (d. 1831)
January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846)
February 4 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
February 11 - Basil Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873)
March 8 - Simon Cameron, American politician (d. 1889)
March 20 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
March 29 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
April 12 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
April 17 - Eliza Acton, English cookery writer (d. 1859)
May 13 - Catherine Gore, English author (d. 1861)
May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author (d. 1850)
May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist (d. 1847)
June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician (d. 1862)
July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859)
September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (d. 1862)
September 10 - George Willison Adams, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader (d. 1866)
December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)

January 9 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (b. 1718)
January 26 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
February 6 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1711)
February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (b. 1750)
May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer (b. 1732)
May 26 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
May 31 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician (b. 1736)
August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1745)
August 4 - John Bacon, British sculptor (b. 1740)
August 5 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
August 29 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
August 31 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
September 7 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
October 6 - William Withering, British physician (b. 1741)
October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
December 14 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
December 18 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
December 31 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)

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