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

* 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 )

He reluctantly accepted, and served as the senior officer of the United States Army between July 13, 1798, and December 14, 1799.

On Thursday, December 12, 1799, Washington spent several hours inspecting his plantation on horseback, in snow, hail and freezing rain — later that evening eating his supper without changing from his wet clothes.

" Washington died at home around 10 p. m. on Saturday, December 14, 1799, aged 67.

On December 18, 1799, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon, where his body was interred.

The Kentucky state legislature passed the first resolution on November 16, 1798 and the second on December 3, 1799.

He held the latter office until December 17, 1799, when he was succeeded by Thomas McKean.

* 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig ( 17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823 ), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig.

* December 9 – Patrick MacDowell, Northern Irish sculptor ( b. 1799 )

* December 9 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer ( b. 1799 )

* December 13 – Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, botanist ( b. 1799 )

* December 10 – Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore ( d. 1799 )

* December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer ( d. 1799 )

* December 27 – Pope Pius VI ( d. 1799 )

Pope Pius VI ( 25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799 ), born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, was Pope from 1775 to 1799.

Possible dates include 9 November 1799, when Bonaparte seized power in France ; 18 May 1803, when Britain and France ended the only period of peace in Europe between 1792 and 1814, and 2 December 1804, when Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor.

# Maurizio of Savoy ( 13 December 1762 – 1 September 1799 ) died unmarried of malaria.

On December 13, 1799, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation to form Floyd County as the 40th county of Kentucky.

* Charles Goldsborough ( July 15, 1765 – December 13, 1834 ), State Senator 1791 – 1795 and 1799 – 1801, U. S. Congressman 1789 – 1791, Governor of Maryland 1818 – 1819

Dropping its homage to Lloyd, a Loyalist, the town would be incorporated as Bethlehem on December 27, 1799, the name selected on the last Christmas Day of the century.

* 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.

In the campaign of 1799 he once more opposed Jourdan, whom he defeated in the battles of Ostrach and Stockach, following up his success by invading Switzerland and defeating Masséna in the First Battle of Zürich, after which he re-entered Germany and drove the French once more over the Rhine.

The definitive metre bar, manufactured from platinum, was presented to the French legislative assembly on 22 June 1799.

In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

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.

* 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1799 )

* 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.

* 1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor ( b. 1733 )

* 1799 – Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist ( d. 1864 )

The French Revolution (; 1789 – 1799 ), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe.

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.

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 2 vol 1984 ), short essays by scholars

* 1799 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect ( b. 1728 )

In 1799 the Russian army expelled the French from Italy in battles such as Cassano, while the Austrian army defeated the French in Switzerland at Stockach and Zurich.

French Society in Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 1999 )

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 2 vol 1984 ), short essays by scholars

The earliest use of the term " Industrial Revolution " seems to be a letter of 6 July 1799 by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise.

* 1723 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer ( d. 1799 )

* 1732 – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright ( d. 1799 )

* 1745 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor ( d. 1799 )

* 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

The political terms Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), referring to the seating arrangement in the Estates General: those who sat on the left generally supported the radical changes of the revolution, including the creation of a republic and secularization, while those on the right were supportive of the traditional institutions of the Old Regime.

The French Academy of Sciences commissioned an expedition led by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1799, which measured the distance between the Dunkerque belfry and Montjuïc castle, Barcelona to estimate the length of the meridian arc through Dunkerque ( assumed to be the same length as the Paris meridian ).