1799

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 [ "Calendar in year 1799 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1799&country=20 Julian-1799] (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).] 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 is 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 - Battle of Seringapatam: Tippu Sultan is defeated and killed by the British.

July - December

* July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men take 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 - The British and Russians send an 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 - Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.
* October 9 - The "HMS Lutine" (a famous treasure wreck) is sunk.
* October 18 - Anglo-Russian expedition forces surrender in Holland.
* November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
* December - A new constitution is approved in a plebiscite in France.
* 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 describes 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.
* The Nawab (provincial governor) of Oudh in northern India sends to George III of England the Padshahnama, an official history of the reign of Shah Jahan.
* William Cockerill begins building cotton-spinning equipment in Belgium.
*Dutch government takes over Dutch East India Company.

Ongoing events

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

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 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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