1799

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

• 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)

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

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