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

• January 6 – Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer (d. 1831)
• January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, and caricature artist (d. 1846)
• 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 (d. 1847)
• June 6 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
• July 4 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859)
• June 18 – Prosper Ménière, French physician (d. 1862)
• September 8 – James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (d. 1862)
• November 1 – Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader (d. 1866)
• December 30 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
• James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
• Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer

Deaths

• January 17 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (b. 1718)
• 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)
• 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 29 – Pope Pius VI (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. 1832)