* 1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

* 1750 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler ( d. 1799 )

Tipu Sultan ( November 1750, Devanahalli – 4 May 1799, Seringapatam ), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore.

In the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War the combined forces of the British East India Company and the Nizam of Hyderabad defeated Tipu and he was killed on 4 May 1799, defending the fort of Seringapatam.

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

The Nilgiri territory came into possession of East India Company as part of the ceded lands, held by Tipu Sultan, by the treaty of Srirangapatnam in 1799.

After Tipu Sultan's death in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799, the capital of the kingdom was moved back to Mysore from Seringapatam, and the kingdom was distributed by the British to their allies of the Fourth Mysore war.

During the conclusive British attack on Seringapatam on 2 May 1799, a British shot struck a magazine of rockets within the Tipu Sultan's fort causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke, with cascades of exploding white light, rising up from the battlements.

Tipu Sultan wrote twice to Selim III, rejecting the advise of the Ottomans, unfortunately before most of his letters could arrive in Istanbul, the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out and Tipu Sultan was killed during the Siege of Seringapatam ( 1799 ).

In 1799, another club was formed at Seringapatam in south India after the successful British siege and the defeat of Tipu Sultan.

The death of Tipu Sulthan in Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799 saw the end of Mysorean control and subsequently the fort came under the British East India Company.

The defeat of the redoubtable Indian ruler Tipu Sultan in 1799 marginalized French influence.

In 1799, he was part of the British force in the Battle of Seringapatam, where Tipu Sultan, Maharaja of Mysore was defeated by the British.

Among others, Tipu Sultan, the Mysore warrior's relative Nawab Ayaz Ali, migrated here after the British defeated the ruler in 1799 and was buried here.

From 1760 to 1799, the rule of the dynasty was essentially nominal, with real power in the hands of the successive dalwai, or commanders-in-chief, Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, who expanded the kingdom aggressively, but clashed with the East India Company.

After Tipu Sultan was killed when the British stormed Seringapatam in 1799, the Wadiyars were restored to a reduced kingdom.

After the famous Mysore War IV and the resultant death of Tipu Sultan, the legendary Arthur Wellesley ( also Known as Iron Duke ) conquered Srirangapatna in 1799.

Resolution occurred in 1799 with the defeat and killing of Hyder's son Tipu, and the restoration of the Wodeyars as British clients.

The fourth war resulted in the overthrow of the house of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan ( who was killed in the final war, in 1799 ), and the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the British and their allies.

The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ( 1799 ) saw the defeat of Tipu Sultan and further reductions in Mysorean territory.

A fourth and final war was fought between the British and Mysore in 1799, in which Seringapatam was taken, and Tipu was killed in its defense.

During the conclusive British attack on Srirangapattana on May 2, 1799, a British shot struck a magazine of rockets within Tipu Sultan's fort, causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke with cascades of exploding white light rising up from the battlements.

Tipu's Tiger was part of the extensive plunder from Tipu's palace captured in the fall of Seringapatam, in which Tipu died, on the 4 May 1799, at the culmination of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.

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.

However, on January 30, 1799, the Sultan Selim III court allowed the Janissaries to return, referring to them as local Muslims from the Sanjak of Smederevo.

In 1799, after the defeat of Tippu Sultan and the fall of Mysore, he was asked to survey South India resulting in A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar ( 1807 ).

With the fall of Tipu Sultan in 1799, this territory too passed into the hands of the British who restored it to the Wodeyars of Mysore, from which date the history of the district coincides with the history of the erstwhile Mysore State.

The battle consisted of a series of encounters around Seringapatam ( the anglicized version of Srirangapatnam ) in the months of April and May 1799, between the combined forces of the British East India Company and their allies, numbering over 50, 000 soldiers in all, and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mysore, ruled by Tipu Sultan, numbering up to 30, 000.

Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone begins with the looting of the jewels removed from Seringapatam in 1799 from the legendary treasury of Tippu Sultan.

Sultan Al hajj Hassan Nooraddeenul Iskandhar I was the Sultan of the Maldives from 1779 – 1799.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

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.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

In 1799 all special tolls were abolished, and in 1802 the poll tax was removed.

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

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.

He was elected as first consul of France on 10 November 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, and president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud.

From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.

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.

Brown was tried in June 1799.

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.

In 1789 he was made court painter to Charles IV and in 1799 he was appointed First Court Painter with a salary of 50, 000 reales and 500 ducats for a coach.

His experimental art — which would encompass paintings, drawings as well as a bitter series of aquatinted etchings, published in 1799 under the title Caprichos – was done in parallel to his more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings.

In 1799, the Province of Ceará was separated from the Province of Pernambuco and Fortaleza was chosen as its capital.

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.

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.