1799

1799 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1799; MDCCXCIX
French Republican calendar	7–8
Ab urbe condita	2552
Armenian calendar	1248; ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6549
Balinese saka calendar	1720–1721
Bengali calendar	1206
Berber calendar	2749
British Regnal year	39 Geo. 3 – 40 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2343
Burmese calendar	1161
Byzantine calendar	7307–7308
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse); 4496 or 4289; — to —; 己未年 (Earth Goat); 4497 or 4290
Coptic calendar	1515–1516
Discordian calendar	2965
Ethiopian calendar	1791–1792
Hebrew calendar	5559–5560
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1855–1856
- Shaka Samvat	1720–1721
- Kali Yuga	4899–4900
Holocene calendar	11799
Igbo calendar	799–800
Iranian calendar	1177–1178
Islamic calendar	1213–1214
Japanese calendar	Kansei 11; (寛政１１年)
Javanese calendar	1725–1726
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4132
Minguo calendar	113 before ROC; 民前113年
Nanakshahi calendar	331
Thai solar calendar	2341–2342
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年; (male Earth-Horse); 1925 or 1544 or 772; — to —; 阴土羊年; (female Earth-Goat); 1926 or 1545 or 773

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century; 18th century ; 19th century;
Decades:	1770s; 1780s; 1790s ; 1800s; 1810s;
Years:	1796; 1797; 1798; 1799 ; 1800; 1801; 1802;

Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1799 (MDCCLXXXXIX) 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).

Events of 1799

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 is 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 - Battle of Seringapatam: Tippu Sultan is defeated and killed by the British.

July - December

July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men take 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 - The British and Russians send an 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 - Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.
October 9 - The HMS Lutine (a famous treasure wreck) is sunk.
October 18 - Anglo-Russian expedition forces surrender 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 describes 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.
The Nawab (provincial governor) of Oudh in northern India sends to George III of England the Padshahnama, an official history of the reign of Shah Jahan.
William Cockerill begins building cotton-spinning equipment in Belgium.
Dutch government takes over Dutch East India Company.

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)
February 14 - Walenty Wańkowicz, polish painter (d. 1842)
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)
November 29 - Amos Bronson Alcott, father of novelist Louisa May Alcott (d. 1888)
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

January 9 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (b. 1718)
January 22 - Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss aristocrat and alpinist (b. 1740)
February 6 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1711)
February 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist and physiologist (b. 1729)
February 16 - Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
February 22 - Heshen, Manchu official under Qianlong (b. 1750)
February 24 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist and Anglophile (b. 1742)
April 6 - Alexander Bezborodko, Grand Chancellor of Russia, architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy (b. 1747)
May 2 - Guemes Padilla Horcasitas, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1740)
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)
June 10 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Guadeloupe-born French musician (b. 1745)
July 7 - William Curtis, English botanist and entomologist (b. 1746)
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 15 - Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, French general (b. 1769)
August 29 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
August 31 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
September 7 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, biologist and chemist (b. 1730)
October 6 - William Withering, British physician (b. 1741)
October 9 - Pigneau de Behaine, French priest who helped to establish the Nguyen dynasty (b. 1741)
October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
December 6 - Joseph Black, Scottish physician, physicist, and chemist (b. 1728)
December 14 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
December 31 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)

Notes

^ "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).

[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).

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