* 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.

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 his father narrowly escaped the guillotine and the family house was sacked by a mob in 1797 during the events of 18 Fructidor, the entire family left for the United States in 1799.

" A letter written in 1799 by Goethe recounts: "... when it was time for dessert, the prince's entire livery ... carried a generous-size torte with colorful flaming candles-amounting to some fifty candles-that began to melt and threatened to burn down, instead of there being enough room for candles indicating upcoming years, as is the case with children's festivities of this kind ..." As the excerpt indicates, the tradition at the time was to place candles for each year of the individual's life with some added candles ' indicating upcoming years '.

McCoy committed suicide while drunk in 1798, and Quintal was killed by Adams and Young in 1799 after he threatened to kill the entire community.

After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the Duke of York.

In 1799, the Dutch East India Company, formerly the world's largest company, became bankrupt, partly due to the rise of competitive free trade.

An Anglo-Russian invasion of the Netherlands in 1799 accomplished little except the capture of the Dutch fleet.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

* 1799: Dutch East India Company is dissolved.

The subsequent collapse of the company meant that in 1799 the area returned to official Dutch rule.

This did not mean that the Dutch were completely left to their own devices: whenever French interests seemed to be in danger, France decisively intervened on its own behalf, as in the attempt to deduct the value of the Dutch fleet, surrendered in 1799, that the British had purchased from the Stadtholder, from the indemnification of the Prince of Orange.

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

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.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

In July 1799, Dutch prisoners sought permission to use one building as a theatre.

Modernist republicanism openly influenced the foundation of republics during the Dutch Revolt ( 1568 – 1609 ), English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ), American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ), and the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ).

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.

In 1799 the area of Brokaw Road a group of New Jersey Dutch farmers settled to form a Dutch Reformed community, eventually boasting two churches.

* HMS Imperieuse was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1799.

John Fries's Rebellion, also called the House Tax Rebellion, the Home Tax Rebellion, and, in Deitsch the Heesses-Wasser Uffschtand, was an armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 and 1800.

Joining the 15th Light Dragoons in 1793, he became captain in the following year, and received a majority after serving as aide-de-camp to the duke of York in the Dutch expedition of 1799.

Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz FRS ( December 8, 1730 – September 7, 1799 ) was a Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist.

His 19th century Dutch American ancestors ; Thomas Arnold Demill ( 1799 – 1877 ), Henrietta Elizabeth Demill ( 1821 – 1881 ), William Edward Demill ( 1824 – 1873 ), and Richard Mead Demill ( 1828 – 1905 ) owned and operated a Commission Merchant ( shipping and trading ) company, Demill & Co. in New York City at 178-1 / 2 Water Street, serving the ports of the Eastern Seaboard, including but not limited to Halifax, Nova Scotia and ( Little ) Washington, North Carolina throughout the American Civil War.

* In 1799, The Dutch East India company, formerly the world's largest company goes bankrupt, partly due to the rise of competitive free trade.

* was originally the Dutch 24-gun Dolflin, which HMS Wolverine and HMS Arrow captured at Vlie Island in 1799.