1799 Facts for Kids

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

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.