What is 1799?
{{Year nav|1799}} {{Year in various calendars|1799}} '''1799''' ([[Roman numerals|MDCCXCIX]]) was a [[common year]] [[Common year starting on Tuesday|starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Saturday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. == Events == * [[March 1]] – [[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]] James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate. * [[March 7]] – [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] captures Jaffa in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 [[Albania]]n captives. * [[March 29]] – [[New York (state)|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 [[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]] defeats 10,000 [[Ottoman Empire|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. {{births}} *[[April 17]] - [[Edward Williams Clay]], American artist (d. [[1857]]) {{deaths}} * [[August 29]] – [[Pope Pius VI]], Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (b. [[1717]]) [[Category:1799| ]]