1799
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1796 1797 1798 - 1799 - 1800 1801 1802 |
[change] 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.
