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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 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


Births

1799 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1799
MDCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita 2552
Armenian calendar 1248
ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ
Assyrian calendar 6549
Bahá'í calendar -45–-44
Bengali calendar 1206
Berber calendar 2749
British Regnal year 39 Geo. 3 – 40 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2343
Burmese calendar 1161
Byzantine calendar 7307–7308
Chinese calendar 戊午年十一月廿六日
(4435/4495-11-26)
— to —
己未年十二月初六日
(4436/4496-12-6)
Coptic calendar 1515–1516
Ethiopian calendar 1791–1792
Hebrew calendar 5559–5560
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1855–1856
 - Shaka Samvat 1721–1722
 - Kali Yuga 4900–4901
Holocene calendar 11799
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 799–800
Iranian calendar 1177–1178
Islamic calendar 1213–1214
Japanese calendar Kansei 11
(寛政11年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4132
Minguo calendar 113 before ROC
民前113年
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- Honouré 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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