1799
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Gregorian calendar | 1799 MDCCXCIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2552 |
Armenian calendar | 1248 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ |
Chinese calendar | 4435/4495-11-26 (戊午年十一月廿六日) — to —
4436/4496-12-6(己未年十二月初六日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1791 – 1792 |
Hebrew calendar | 5559 – 5560 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1854 – 1855 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1721 – 1722 |
- Kali Yuga | 4900 – 4901 |
Iranian calendar | 1177 – 1178 |
Islamic calendar | 1214 – 1215 |
Japanese calendar | Kansei 11 |
Thai solar calendar | 2342 |
1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
- French Revolution (1789-1799)
- French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
- Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
[edit] Births
- 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)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer
- Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor (d. 1870)
- James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
- John Brown Russwurm, American abolitionist (d. 1851)
[edit] Deaths
- 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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