1799

Published on Friday, August 17th 2007. Edited by Kid Mixtieink, Tokyo, Japan.

Centuries: 17th century – 18th century – 19th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s

Years: 1796 1797 1798 – 1799 – 1800 1801 1802

Year 1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1799

January – June

January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain’s war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
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 22 – Roddy McCorley executed in the town of Toomebridge by the British for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798
March 29 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
May 4 – Tippu Sultan defeated and killed in Battle of Seringapatam by the British.

July – December

Rosetta Stone

July 7 – Ranjit Singh’s men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
July 12- Ranjit Singh the Great conquers Lahore and becomes ruler of the Punjab.
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.
October 6 – Franco Dutch forces defeat the Russo British expedition force in the battle of Castricum
October 9 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, a famous treasure wreck.
October 18 – Capitulation of Anglo-Russian expedition forces in Holland.
November 9 – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
December – Napoleon becomes First Consul.
December 14 – George Washington, the first President of the United States, dies in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Undated

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.
12 year old Conrad John Reed finds what he described as a “heavy yellow rock” along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina and makes it a doorstop in his home. Conrad’s father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802, initiating the first gold rush in the United States.
The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho, plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.

Ongoing events

French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Births

1799 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar 1799 MDCCXCIX

Ab urbe condita 2552

Armenian calendar 1248 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ

Bahá'í calendar -45 – -44

Berber calendar 2749

Buddhist calendar 2343

Burmese calendar 1161

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)

Coptic calendar 1515 – 1516

Ethiopian calendar 1791 – 1792

Hebrew calendar 5559 – 5560

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1854 – 1855

- Shaka Samvat 1721 – 1722

- Kali Yuga 4900 – 4901

Holocene calendar 11799

Iranian calendar 1177 – 1178

Islamic calendar 1213 – 1214

Japanese calendar Kansei 11 (寛政11年)

Korean calendar 4132

Thai solar calendar 2342

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 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, a German physician, famous for reporting the symptoms of Graves-Basedow disease. (d. 1854)
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)
date unknown
Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (d. 1870)
Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor (d. 1870)
James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
John Brown Russwurm, American abolitionist (d. 1851)

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)
March 22 – Roddy McCorley, Irish republican
May 4 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (b. 1750)
May 19 – 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. 1744)
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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