* 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 )

Reuben Chapman ( July 15, 1799 – May 16, 1882 ) was an American lawyer and politician.

George Washington ( –, 1799 ), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President.

Further observations were made by the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt during his South American journey from 1799 to 1803.

* 1799 – Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer ( d. 1831 )

* 1736 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia ( d. 1799 )

* 1799 – John Lowell, American philanthropist ( d. 1836 )

* 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer and author ( b. 1799 )

* 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher ( b. 1799 )

* 1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon ( d. 1885 )

* 1799 – William Sprague III, American politician ( d. 1856 )

* 1799 – Titian Peale, American artist ( d. 1885 )

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it wasn't until 1846 when an American Dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.

* January – Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader ( b. 1799 )

* John Brown Russwurm, American abolitionist ( b. 1799 )

** William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island ( b. 1799 )

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

This period was built on the strong natural independence of the Norwegian farm culture, combined with awareness of the American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ) and the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), building the natural national assertiveness, and culminating in the constitutional convention of 1814.

* Richard Penn Smith ( 1799 – 1854 ), American playwright

Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expeditionArmed with powerful recommendations from the King of Spain, they sailed in the Pizarro from A Coruña, on June 5, 1799, stopped six days on the island of Tenerife to climb the volcano Teide, and landed at Cumaná, Venezuela, on July 16.

The orchestra was founded by the American-born conductor Ureli Corelli Hill in 1842, with the aid of the then famous and feted Irish composer, William Vincent Wallace, Wallace, as the Philharmonic Society of New York – the third Philharmonic on American soil since 1799, declaring as its purpose " the advancement of instrumental music.

* USS Chesapeake ( 1799 ), an American frigate captured by HMS Shannon in 1813

Jedediah Strong Smith ( January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831 ) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, cartographer and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century.