1799

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Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Countries:   Australia -Canada -

Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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 1 Events of 1799 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events of 1799

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 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 - 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.

[edit] 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.
• Nawab (provincial governor) of Oudh in northern India sends to George III of England the Padshahnama, official history of the reign of Shah Jahan.

[edit] Ongoing events

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

[edit] Births

1799 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1799 MDCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2552
Armenian calendar	1248 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-45 – -44
Berber calendar	2749
Buddhist calendar	2343
Burmese calendar	1161
Chinese calendar	4435/4495-11-26 (戊午年十一月廿六日) — to — 4436/4496-12-6 (己未年十二月初六日)
Coptic calendar	1515 – 1516
Ethiopian calendar	1791 – 1792
Hebrew calendar	5559 – 5560
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1854 – 1855
- Shaka Samvat	1721 – 1722
- Kali Yuga	4900 – 4901
Holocene calendar	11799
Iranian calendar	1177 – 1178
Islamic calendar	1213 – 1214
Japanese calendar	Kansei 11 (寛政11年)
Korean calendar	4132
Thai solar calendar	2342
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• 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 Category: 1799 births.

[edit] 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 Category: 1799 deaths.

[edit] 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).