1799

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1796 1797 1798 - 1799 - 1800 1801 1802\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate\n* March 7 - Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. \n* March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state \n* July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.\n* July 15 - In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone. \n* July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. \n* November 9 - Napoleon overthrew the French Directory\n* December - Napoleon becomes First Consul\n* The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.\n* The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes\n* The American System of manufacturing is invented

Ongoing events

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

Births

\n*January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer\n*April 12 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+1855)\n*May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (+ 1861)\n*May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author\n*May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist\n*May 26 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author\n*July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway\n*June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician\n*September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor\n*December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist

Deaths

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