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Everything about 1799 totally explainedYear 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
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.
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.
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, 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
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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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