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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
^[1]of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1799

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Fictional events

Births

Deaths

Notes

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.

July - December

★ 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 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 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.

★ 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.

Ongoing events

★ French Revolution (1789-1799)

★ French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

★ Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Fictional events

★ The events of Bernard Cornwell's 1997 novel ''Sharpe's Tiger''

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)
: ''See also .''

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)
: ''See also .''

Notes

1.
"Calendar in year 1799 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar),
Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage:
Julian-1799
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).