* 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 )

In February 1799, the Maltese insurgents, having lost hope in an intervention of King Ferdinand, requested that Ball, who had previously landed near the village of Qrendi on the south of the island, preside over the National Assembly.

* May 29 – Patrick Henry, American patriot ( d. 1799 )

* Brigadier General, D. Juan Francisco Echeto ( b. 1799 ) – Venezuelan patriot who fought for independence at the battles of Tacarigua, Santa Lucía, Sabana Redonda, Bailadores, and Lago de Maracaibo.

The most known citizens of Pomarico were Niccolò Fiorentino ( lawyer and patriot during the Neapolitan Revolution, 1799 ) and Francesco Caggiani ( awarded with a gold medal during the World War I ).

Domenico Cirillo ( Grumo Nevano, April 10, 1739 – Naples, October 9, 1799 ), Italian physician and patriot, was born at Grumo Nevano in the kingdom of Naples.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

A map of 1799 shows ten buildings in the center of town along Main Street.

Westmere as a settled place is of recent origin, though being along the Great Western Turnpike, built in 1799, it was always a place migrants passed through on their way from Albany and New England to the western frontier.

In January 1799, the French occupied Naples along with Togar and set up the Parthenopaean Republic.

Coleridge Cottage was, between 1797 and 1799, the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in poetry ( along with William Wordsworth, who himself lived three miles away ).

Ferdo Livadić ( 1799 – 1879 ) wrote Notturno in F-sharp minor for piano as early as 1822, which is, along with John Field's compositions under the same name, one of the earliest examples of that type of piano miniatures in general.

Phil ( Stow ) Kelley along with their six sons settled in Lowville in 1799, moving from Middletown Conn. With the help of some others Daniel put up a saw mill and a 2-story house.

In addition to his output of novels, Brown also became an editor during this period and, along with his friends in New York published and wrote many short articles and reviews for The Monthly Magazine and American Review from April 1799 to December 1800, as well as its short-lived successor, The American Review and Literary Journal ( 1801 – 1802 ).

He was tutored at home before being sent to the University of Göttingen in Germany in summer 1786, along with his brothers Prince Ernest ( created Duke of Cumberland in 1799 ) and Prince Augustus ( created Duke of Sussex in 1801 ).

Timothy Dwight IV, President of Yale University, along with Williams College President Ebenezer Fitch, climbed Greylock in 1799, probably over a rough route cut by a local pioneer farmer Jeremiah Wilbur ( in that time more land had been cleared on the slopes for farming than today ).

Mayiladuthurai was ruled by the Early Cholas, Medieval Cholas, Later Cholas, Pandyas, the Vijayanagar Empire, Thanjavur Nayaks and the Thanjavur Marathas before it was annexed by the British East India Company along with the rest of the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom in 1799.

In 1799, Mayiladuthurai, was ceded to the British East India Company, along with the rest of the Thanjavur Maratha kingdom, by the Thanjavur Maratha ruler Serfoji II.

The reservoir opened on 8 May 1797, however in June 1799 the eastern dam burst releasing a flood wave downstream along the Crane Brook Valley towards Shenstone, about 4. 5 miles to the south east.

While the Catholic Church was active along the coast, Protestant religious activities began inland in the Mississippi Territory after 1799.

In 1799, severe floods damaged earthworks along the canal and of the various reservoirs.

He also carved figureheads for the U. S. Navy frigates ( John Adams, 1799, whereabouts unknown ), ( Hercules, 1799, burned 1804 ), and ( Captain John Smith, 1822, whereabouts unknown ); along with the gun-ships ( Benjamin Franklin, 1815, U. S. Naval Academy Museum ), ( Christopher Columbus, 1819, whereabouts unknown ), ( Sir Walter Raleigh, 1820, whereabouts unknown ), and ( Hercules, 1824 – 37, attributed to Rush or his son John, whereabouts unknown ).

He helped capture the French frigate Insurgent during Constellation's engagement with her on February 9, 1799, and was given command of her as prize master, along with Midshipman Porter and eleven seamen, to which the task of guarding more than 160 prisoners was also given.

In the Prussian army under Frederic William II of Prussia and his successor there were several cavalry regiments organized along the lines of Polish towarzysz cavalry from the Polish and Polish Tatar nationals under the Prussian rule, and one cavalry regiment was actually called Towarczys Regiment, organized in 1799.

Styled Lord Windsor from birth, he inherited his title from his father in 1799, along with his father's land at Tardebigge, the country seat Hewell Grange, and land in Shropshire and Glamorgan.

* Commentarius de Penitiori Ossium Structura, 1799, described the cellular structure of bone, along with notes on growth and diseases of bone.

Willow trees were planted in multiple rows along the road in 1799 ; the last one was removed in 1982.

The Pennamite-Yankee War ( or Yankee-Pennamite Wars ) was the intermittent conflict between 1769 and 1799 between settlers from Connecticut, who claimed the land along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River in the present Wyoming Valley, and settlers from Pennsylvania, who claimed the same lands.