1799
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 I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory. 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.
Ongoing events French Revolution (1789-1799) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Births - James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
- January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer
- January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, and caricature artist
- April 12 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
- May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (d. 1861)
- May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author (d. 1850)
- May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
- June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
- July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
- June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician
- September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
- November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist
Deaths - January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
- February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China
- February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
- May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
- May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer (b. 1732)
- June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
- August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor
- August 4 - John Bacon, British sculptor
- August 29 - Pope Pius VI
- October 6 - William Withering, British physician
- October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
- December 14 - George Washington, first President of the United States
- Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect
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