1799

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1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

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 Ottoman Mamluk troops 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.

Deaths

December 14 - George Washington, 67, first President of the United States, throat infection (b. 1732)==Births==

for more information, see Category:1799 births.

• April 17 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)

1799 Media

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  November 9: Napoleon overthrows the French Directory, ends French Revolution with the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

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  July 15: French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.

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  September 25: Second Battle of Zurich

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  Carl Adolph von Basedow

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  • Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
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  Vasily Tropinin. Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. 1827. Oil on canvas.

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  The Qianlong Emperor in court dress.

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  Portrait of Tipu Sultan once owned by Richard Colley Wellsley, now in the care of the British Library.

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  Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier

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  • Portrait of George Washington (1732–99)

Deaths

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• August 29 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (b. 1717)