1799
1799 was a
common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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March 1 -
Federalist James Ross becomes
President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
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March 7 -
Napoleon captures
Jaffa in
Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000
Albanian captives.
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March 29 -
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing
slavery in the state.
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July 7 -
Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
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July 15 - In the
Egyptian port city of
Rosetta,
French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the
Rosetta Stone.
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July 25 - At
Aboukir in
Egypt,
Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000
Ottoman Mamluk troops under
Mustafa Pasha.
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August 27 -
British and
Russian expedition to the
Batavian Republic (now the
Netherlands).
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August 30 - British forces under Sir
Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell capture the entire Dutch fleet.
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November 9 -
Napoleon overthrows the
French Directory.
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October 9 - Sinking of
HMS Lutine, a famous treasure wreck.
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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.
Ongoing events
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French Revolution (
1789-1799)
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French Revolutionary Wars (
1792-
1802)-
Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
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Napoleonic Wars (1799-
1815)-
Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
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January 6 -
Jedediah Smith, American fur trapper and explorer (d.
1831)
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January 31 -
Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d.
1846)
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February 4 -
Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d.
1854)
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February 11 -
The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the
Congregation of Holy Cross (d.
1873)
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March 8 -
Simon Cameron, American politician (d.
1889)
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March 20 -
Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d.
1839)
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April 12 -
Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d.
1855)
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April 17 -
Eliza Acton, English cookery writer (d.
1859)
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May 13 -
Catherine Gore, English author (d.
1861)
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May 20-
Honoré de Balzac, French author (d.
1850)
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May 21 -
Mary Anning, British paleontologist (d.
1847)
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June 6 -
Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d.
1837)
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July 4 - King
Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d.
1859)
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June 18 -
Prosper Ménière, French physician (d.
1862)
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September 8 -
James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (d.
1862)
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September 10 -
George Willison Adams, American abolitionist (d.
1879)
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November 1 -
Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader (d.
1866)
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December 30 -
David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d.
1834)
Unknown dates
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Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer
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Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor (d.
1870)
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James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
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John Brown Russwurm, American abolitionist (d.
1851)
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January 9 -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (b.
1718)
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January 26 -
Gabriel Christie, British general (b.
1722)
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February 6 -
Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b.
1728)
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February 7 -
Qianlong Emperor of China (b.
1711)
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February 19 -
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b.
1733)
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May 4 -
Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (b.
1750)
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May 18 -
Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer (b.
1732)
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May 26 -
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b.
1714)
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May 31 -
Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (b.
1715)
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June 6 -
Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician (b.
1736)
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August 2 -
Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b.
1745)
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August 4 -
John Bacon, British sculptor (b.
1740)
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August 5 -
Richard Howe, British admiral (b.
1726)
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August 29 -
Pope Pius VI (b.
1717)
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August 31 -
Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b.
1720)
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September 7 -
Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b.
1717)
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October 6 -
William Withering, British physician (b.
1741)
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October 24 -
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b.
1739)
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December 14 -
George Washington, first
President of the United States (b.
1732)
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December 18 -
Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b.
1725)
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December 31 -
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b.
1723)
