1799

Years: 1796 1797 1798 - 1799 - 1800 1801 1802
Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1799 in art 1799 in literature 1799 in music 1799 in science List of state leaders in 1799 List of religious leaders in 1799

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths

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 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
November 9 - Napoleon overthrew 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