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[edit] Events of 1799

[edit] January - June
January 9 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
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 22 - Roddy McCorley is executed in the town of Toomebridge by the British for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
May 4 - Battle of Seringapatam: Tippu Sultan is defeated and killed by the British.

[edit] July - December

Rosetta StoneJuly 7 - Ranjit Singh's men take their positions outside Lahore.
July 12- Ranjit Singh the Great conquers Lahore and becomes ruler of the Punjab.
July 15 - In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
August 27 - The British and Russians send an expedition to the Batavian Republic (now the Netherlands).
August 30 - British forces under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell capture the entire Dutch fleet.
October 6 - Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.
October 9 - The HMS Lutine (a famous treasure wreck) is sunk.
October 18 - Anglo-Russian expedition forces surrender in Holland.
November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
December - A new constitution is approved in a plebiscite in France.
December - Napoleon becomes First Consul.
December 14 - George Washington, the first President of the United States, dies in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

[edit] Undated
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.
The small town of Tignish, PE, Canada is founded.
12 year old Conrad John Reed finds what he describes as a "heavy yellow rock" along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina and makes it a doorstop in his home. Conrad's father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802, initiating the first gold rush in the United States.
The assassination of the 14th Tu'i Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho, plunges Tonga into half a century of civil war.
The Nawab (provincial governor) of Oudh in northern India sends to George III of England the Padshahnama, an official history of the reign of Shah Jahan.
William Cockerill begins building cotton-spinning equipment in Belgium.
Dutch government takes over Dutch East India Company.

[edit] Ongoing events_new_new
French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign