1799

Events:

   * March 7 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his
     troops procede to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
   * March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery
     in the state
   * July 15 - In the Egyptian village of Rosette, French Captain Pierre
     Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
   * July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000
     Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
   * November 9 - Napoleon overthrew 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:

   * May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (+ 1861)
   * May 20- Honor� de Balzac, French author
   * May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
   * May 26 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
   * July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
   * June 18 - Prosper M�ni�re, French physician
   * September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
   * December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist
   * Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer

Deaths:

   * January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
   * February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist,
     political scientist, and sailor
   * May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
   * May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer
   * June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
   * August 2 - Jacques �tienne Montgolfier, French inventor
   * August 4 - John Bacon - British sculptor
   * August 29 - Pope Pius VI
   * October 6 - William Withering, British doctor
   * December 14 - George Washington, first president of the United States
   * �tienne-Louis Boull�e, French architect

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