1799 35496 225767726 2008-07-15T08:56:26Z VolkovBot 3035831 robot Adding: [[vo:1799]] {{year nav|{{PAGENAME}}}} {{C18YearInTopicX}} <!-- [[Image: |thumb|140px|right| .]] --> Year '''1799''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]] <ref> "Calendar in year 1799 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1799&country=20 Julian-1799] (Russia used the Julian calendar until [[1919]]). </ref>of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 11-day span=Mon-Fri,Tue-Sat,Wed-Sun,Thu-Mon,Fr-Tu,Sa-We,Sun-Thu --> == Events of 1799 == ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 9]] - [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[William Pitt the Younger]] introduces an [[income tax]] of two [[shilling]]s to the [[Pound Sterling|pound]] to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. * [[March 1]] - [[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]] [[James Ross (US politician)|James Ross]] becomes [[President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate]]. * [[March 7]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] captures [[Jaffa, Israel|Jaffa]] in [[Palestine]] and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 [[Albania]]n 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. ===July - December=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:Rosetta Stone BW.jpeg|thumb|100px|right|Rosetta Stone]] * [[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 [[Egypt]]ian port city of [[Rosetta]], [[France|French]] Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the [[Rosetta Stone]]. * [[July 25]] - At [[Aboukir]] in [[Egypt]], [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] defeats 10,000 [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Mamluk]] troops under [[Mustafa Pasha (Egypt)|Mustafa Pasha]]. * [[August 27]] - [[Great Britain|British]] and [[Russia|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 (1785)|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|American System]] of manufacturing is invented. * The small town of [[Tignish]], [[Prince Edward Island|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|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]]. *[[William Cockerill]] begins building [[cotton-spinning]] equipment in [[Belgium]]. ===Ongoing events=== * [[French Revolution]] ([[1789]]-1799) * [[French Revolutionary Wars]] ([[1792]]-[[1802]])-[[Second Coalition]]/Egyptian Campaign * [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1799-[[1815]])-[[Second Coalition]]/Egyptian Campaign ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kansei]] 10 &ndash; 11}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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 [[Germans|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 Meniere|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]]) ==Deaths== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[January 9]] - [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1718]]) *[[January 26]] - [[Gabriel Christie (general)|Gabriel Christie]], British general (b. [[1722]]) *[[February 6]] - [[Etienne-Louis Boullee|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]] - [[Montgolfier brothers|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. 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