* 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 – 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 )

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

Though governor of the Druze Mountain, Bashir was a crypto-Christian, and it was he whose aid Napoleon solicited in 1799 during his campaign against Syria.

After the fall of the Jacobins and the execution of Robespierre, the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795 and held power until 1799, when it was replaced by the Consulate under Napoleon Bonaparte.

On 9 November 1799 ( 18 Brumaire of the Year VIII ) Napoleon Bonaparte staged the coup of 18 Brumaire which installed the Consulate.

The Directory lasted until 1799 when Napoleon staged a coup and installed The Consulate.

Napoleon then seized power through a coup and established the Consulate in 1799.

* 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10, 000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.

His ability as a statesman was first tested in 1799, when Napoleon besieged Acre, a well-fortified coastal city in Palestine, about forty kilometers south of Tyre.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

* 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls ( Consulate Government ).

Nazareth was captured by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799, during his Syrian campaign.

Napoleon himself inspected what had already begun to be called la Pierre de Rosette, the Rosetta Stone, shortly before his return to France in August 1799.

Remnants of an ancient west-east canal, running through the ancient Egyptian cities of Bubastis, Pi-Ramesses, and Pithom were discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte and his cadre of engineers and cartographers in 1799.

* Circa 1799 — Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Egypt and orders a feasibility analysis.

* 1799: Napoleon staged a coup d ' état and became First Consul of France.

On 9 November 1799 ( 18 Brumaire ), Napoleon overthrew the French government, replacing it with the Consulate, in which he was First Consul.

He declined to help Napoleon Bonaparte stage his coup d ' état of November 1799, but nevertheless accepted employment from the Consulate, and from April 1800 to 18 August 1801 commanded the army in the Vendée.

A fresh start was made after Napoleon came to power in 1799.

Engels characterized the coup as " comical " and referred to it as occurring on " the 18th Brumaire "-- the date of the coup according to the 1799 republican calendar of France under Napoleon I. Marx was later to incorporate this comically ironic characterization of Louis Bonaparte's coup into his book about the coup.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

Suriname was occupied by the British in 1799, after the Netherlands were incorporated by France, and was returned to the Dutch in 1816, after the defeat of Napoleon.

Bonaparte's army was trapped in Egypt, and Royal Navy dominance off the Syrian coast contributed significantly to its defeat at the Siege of Acre in 1799, which preceded Bonaparte's return to Europe.

In 1799 he returned from Egypt and on 18 Brumaire ( 9 November ) overthrew the government, replacing it with the Consulate, in which he was First Consul.

It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt.

Bonaparte returned from Egypt to France on 23 August 1799, and seized control of the French government on 9 November 1799 in the coup of 18 Brumaire, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.

During the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt which extended into Syria and Palestine in 1799, a local official from Jenin wrote a poem enumerating and calling upon local Arab leaders to resist Bonaparte, without mentioning the Sultan or the need to protect the Ottoman empire.

The stone was discovered on July 15, 1799 in the port town of Rosetta Rosetta, Egypt, and has been held in the British Museum since 1802.

In 1799 while Napoleon was in Egypt, Josephine purchased the Chateau de Malmaison.

In Egypt, Eugène was wounded during the Siege of Acre ( 1799 ).

In 1799 he led a cultural and scientific expedition to Upper Egypt.

When Bonaparte returned from Egypt in 1799, he escaped to France in the Muiron.

By the end of 1799, Napoleon had returned from Egypt, leaving his army behind.

The Armies of the First French Republic, volume 5: The armies of the Rhine in Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Egypt and the coup d ' état of Brumaire, 1797 – 1799, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939.

The village was razed by the troops of Napoleon during their return to Egypt after their failed siege of Acre in 1799, and the British traveller James Silk Buckingham, who passed through the village (" El Mukalid ") in 1816, described it as still " rather poor ", while noting that the village resembled an Egyptian one in form and constructions of its huts.

Ross fought as a junior officer at the battles of Krabbendam in the Netherlands in 1799 and the Battle of Alexandria in Egypt in 1801.

The shawls were introduced into Western Europe when the General in Chief of the French campaign in Egypt ( 1799 – 1802 ) sent one to Paris.

In 1799, the Revolutionary Army of France commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte passed through Rafah during the invasion of Egypt and Syria.

* Mustafa Pasha ( Egypt ), defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799

The Armies of the First French Republic, volume 5: " The armies of the Rhine in Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Egypt and the coup d ' etat of Brumaire, 1797 – 1799 ," Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939. pp. 49 – 50.

The Siege of Acre ( In Turkish Akka Kuşatması ) of 1799 was an unsuccessful French siege of the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre ( now Akko in modern Israel ) and was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria.

On Napoleon Bonaparte's return from Egypt in 1799, Maret joined the general's party which came to power with the 18 Brumaire Coup ( 9 November – 10 ).

In 1799 he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby to Holland, and later to Egypt as an aide-de-camp.