1799 - Definition and Overview

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

• James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
• January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer
• January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, caricature artist, and comic creator
• 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
• May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
• June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
• July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
• June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician
• September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
• November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist

Deaths

• January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
• February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China
• February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
• May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
• May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer
• June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
• August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor
• August 4 - John Bacon - British sculptor
• August 29 - Pope Pius VI
• October 6 - William Withering, British doctor
• October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
• December 14 - George Washington, first president of the United States
• Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect