* 1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 1855 )

* 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.

* 1728 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist ( d. 1799 )

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

* 1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

Patrick Henry ( May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799 ) was an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

The Virginia Report of 1799 – 1800, Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ; together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, the Debate and Proceedings thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and several other documents illustrative of the report and resolutions

* Armand Joseph Dubernad ( 1741 – 1799 ), financial trader, consul general of the Holy Roman Empire, deputy, mayor and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club of Brittany.

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

* Napoleon Bonaparte, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Roger Ducos, Provisional Consuls ( 10 November – 12 December 1799 )

* Napoleon Bonaparte ( First Consul ), Jean-Jacques Cambacérès ( Second Consul ), Charles-François Lebrun ( Third Consul ), Consuls ( 12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804 )

* Brigi, Calisti, Francesco Pierelli, Giuseppe Rey, Federico Maria Domenico Michele, Zaccaleoni, Consuls ( September – 24 July 1799 )

Rome was occupied by France ( 11 July – 28 September 1799 ) and again by Naples ( 30 September 1799 – 23 June 1800 ), bringing an end to the Roman Republic.

* Joseph Crétin ( 1799 – 1857 ), American bishop

* 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1799 )

* 1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist and botanist ( d. 1799 )

* 1731 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer ( d. 1799 )

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

* François Henri Turpin ( 1709 – 1799 ), man of literature

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras ( 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 ) was a French politician of the French Revolution, and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795 – 1799.

Insulted, François Alexandre Frédéric returned to the US and, in 1799, his exile ended, he returned to France.

Eugène François Vidocq was born during the night of 23 to 24 July 1775 as the third child of the baker Nicolas Joseph François Vidocq ( 1744 – 1799 ) and his wife Henriette Françoise Vidocq ( 1744 – 1824, née Dion ) in Arras in the Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise.

* June 20-Auguste François Biard, genre painter ( b. 1799 )

In Exit liberté à la François ( 1799 ), James Gillray caricatured Napoleon and his grenadiers driving the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangerie.

* Coelina, ou l ' Enfant du Mystère or The Child Of Mystery ( 1799 ) by François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil.

François Victor Masséna, 2nd Duke of Rivoli and 3rd Prince of Essling ( born April 2, 1799 in Antibes, died April 16, 1863 ) was an amateur ornithologist.

In 1799, for protesting against the 18 Fructidor invasion of the chamber by Pierre François Augereau, he was imprisoned until the Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup ( 9 November ).

Auguste François Biard ( June 30, 1799 – June 20, 1882 ) was a French genre painter.

A Russian-Ottoman-English alliance led at sea by Admiral Ushakov and with troops sent by Ali Pasha retook Corfu in 1799 after a four-month siege, when the garrison led by general Louis François Jean Chabot, being short of provisions and having lost the key island of Vido at the entrance of the port, surrendered and was allowed passage back to France.

In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces on the Rhine, Charles out-generaled Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Amberg and Würzburg, and forced Jean Victor Marie Moreau to withdraw across the Rhine, and followed these victories with others at Zürich, Ostrach, Stockach, and Messkirch in 1799.

* 1799 – The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross ( d. 1873 )

* January 29 – The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross ( b. 1799 )

In the winter of 1798 – 1799, Louis XVIII wrote a biography on Marie Antoinette titled Réflexions Historiques sur Marie Antoinette.

Charles lived in Edinburgh and London with his mistress Louise de Polastron His older brother, dubbed Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew in June 1795, relocated to Verona and then to Jelgava Palace, Mitau, where Charles's son, Louis Antoine, married Louis XVI's only surviving child, Marie Thérèse on 10 June 1799.

Paul-Emile was the second child of four children out of the second marriage of his father Jean Ambroise de PUYDT ( 1758 – 1836 ), who married in 1799 with Marie Adélaïde Jeanne MICHOT ( ca 1777-1858 ).

Versions in Breton were written by Pierre Désiré de Goësbriand ( 1784 – 1853 ) in 1836 and Yves Louis Marie Combeau ( 1799 – 1870 ) between 1836 and 1838.

Marie Thérèse Charlotte resided in the palace until her marriage with Prince Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, in 1799.

There, on 10 June 1799, he married his first cousin, Princess Marie Thérèse of France, the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the only member of the immediate royal family to survive the French Revolution.

* Basil Anthony Marie Moreau ( 1799 – 1873 ), French priest

* Princess Louise Marie Thérèse Victoire ( 1733 – 1799 ), originally known as Madame Quatrième, and later as Madame Victoire.

Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne ( 1767-23 October 1810, Cartagena ) was a French General, who served throughout the Revolutionary campaign on the Rhine, took part in the campaign of Zurich in 1799, and distinguished himself very greatly by his escape from, and subsequent return to, Genoa, when in 1800 Masséna was closely besieged in that city.

Victoire de France, Daughter of France ( Marie Louise Thérèse Victoire ; 11 May 1733 – 7 June 1799 ) was the seventh child and fifth daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska.