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

* 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 )

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.

After the French Revolution and the French conquest of Italy, Umbria was part of the ephemeral Roman Republic ( 1798 – 1799 ) and of the Napoleonic Empire ( 1809 – 1814 ).

England controlled Suriname during the Napoleonic Wars from 1799 until 1816, when it was returned to the Dutch.

After a brief tenure at Matthew Boulton ’ s Birmingham ( Soho ) Mint, Droz returned to France and in 1799 was appointed Keeper of the Coins and Medals at the Paris Mint, which post he held throughout the Napoleonic era.

The Battle of Trebbia or the Napoleonic battle of river Trebbia was fought on June 17 – 20, 1799 near the Trebbia River in northern Italy during the joint campaign of the Russian and Austrian troops of about 30, 000 men against the French army of 33, 000 to 35, 000 men.

During the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire took control over the island, between 1799 and 1802, and between 1804 and 1816, before handing it back to the Dutch.

The Consulate was the government of France between the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804.

The Napoleonic era begins roughly with Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état, overthrowing the Directory, establishing the French Consulate, and ends during the Hundred Days and his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ( 9 November 1799 – 28 June 1815 ).

Evolving from the wars Revolutionary France fought with the rest of Europe, the Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars fought between France ( led by Napoleon Bonaparte ) and alliances involving Britain, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Russia and Austria at different times, from 1799 to 1815.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French laid siege to the fort, which fell after 11 days on February 19, 1799.

" The location of KV20, if not its original owner, had long been known since the Napoleonic expedition of 1799 and, in 1844, the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius had partially explored its upper passage.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the fortress was the prison of many French prisoners, including the writer and diplomat Francois Pouqueville, who was detained there for more than two years ( 1799 to 1801 ) and who gave an extensive description of the fortress in his Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l ' Empire Othoman, pendant les années 1798, 1799, 1800 et 1801.

The Napoleonic Wars ( 1799 – 1815 ) led to an improvement in agricultural prices.

Henceforth Foligno belonged to the Papal States until 1860, with the exception of the Napoleonic era, when it was part of the Roman Republic ( 1799 ) then of the Kingdom of Italy ( 1809 ‑ 1814 ).

In Britain income tax was introduced in 1799, to pay for weapons and equipment in preparation for the Napoleonic wars, whilst the US federal government imposed their first income tax in the Revenue Act of 1861 to help pay for the American Civil War.

Timeline of the Napoleonic era ( 1799 – 1815 ).

The Napoleonic era began in 1799 with Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état, that overthrew the Directory and established the French Consulate.

In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Colony during the Napoleonic Wars, a stone Fort was built, named Fort Frederick after the Duke of York.

The tomb was known to the Napoleonic Expedition in 1799, but a full clearance of the tomb only was undertaken by Howard Carter in 1903, although it had been visited by several explorers between 1799 and 1903.

During the Napoleonic Wars the 29th Regiment of Foot was with the Duke of York in Holland in 1799 and later with the Duke of Wellington's Army in Spain and Portugal from 1808 to 1811.

However the Napoleonic Wars from 1799 to 1815 had brought a great increase in the price of fodder.

* 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.

* The Battle of Abukir ( 1799 ) of the Egyptian campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in August 1799, where Napoleon finished his defeat of the Turkish army of Mustafa IV

In 1799, during the French Revolutionary Wars, a British-Russian army invaded North-Holland.

It was fought on August 15, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Wars.

Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG ( 8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799 ) was a British naval officer, notable in particular for his service during the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.

The Anglo-Mysore Wars ( 1766 – 1799 ) and the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1772 – 1818 ) left it in control of much of India south of the Sutlej River.

On 27 May 1799 it was the site of the Battle of Winterthur between elements of the French Army of the Danube and the elements of the Habsburg army, commanded by Friedrich, Baron von Hotze during the War of the Second Coalition, in the French Revolutionary Wars.

The Company soon expanded its territories around its bases in Bombay and Madras ; the Anglo-Mysore Wars ( 1766 – 1799 ) and the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1772 – 1818 ) led to control of the vast region of India south of the Narmada River.

* French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1799

He was forced out by the French during the French Revolutionary Wars, first in 1799, and then after the Treaty of Aranjuez, becoming instead Elector of Salzburg, ruling the territory of the former Archbishopric.

Morris was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, 26 July 1784, and after being appointed a Midshipman in July 1799 served in the Quasi-War with France, Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.

By 1799, the French Revolutionary Wars had resumed after a period of relative peace in 1798.

The French Revolutionary Wars continued from 1799 with the French fighting the forces of the Second Coalition.

In 1798 the country became a battlefield of the Revolutionary Wars, culminating in the Battles of Zürich in 1799.