1799
1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1799th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 799th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1799, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1796 1797 1798 – 1799 – 1800 1801 1802 |
| 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) 4495 or 4435 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4496 or 4436 |
| 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 |
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 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
- for more information, see Category:1799 births.
- April 17 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
Deaths
- for more information, see Category:1799 deaths.
- August 29 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (b. 1717)
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