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1799 and British
* 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.
Also encouraged by the British victory were the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire, both of whom were mustering armies as part of a Second Coalition, which declared war on France in 1799.
* 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty ( b. 1726 )
* 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.
The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent ( 1767 – 1820 ), who subsequently led the British military forces on the continent as Commander-in-Chief, North America ( 1799 – 1800 ), with his headquarters in Halifax.
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 ).
* 1799French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
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.
* 1799: Tipu Sultan was killed in a battle with the British forces.
* May 1 – Michael Rogers, British soldier ( d. 1799 )
* March 9 – Mary Anning, British paleontologist ( b. 1799 )
* March 17 – William Withering, British physician ( d. 1799 )
* March 8 – Richard Howe, British admiral ( d. 1799 )
* September 16 – Gabriel Christie, British general ( d. 1799 )
Mary Anning ( 21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847 ) was a British fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for a number of important finds she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset, where she lived.
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.
The stone was discovered on July 15, 1799 in the port town of Rosetta Rosetta, Egypt, and has been held in the British Museum since 1802.
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.
However, in 1799, British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy decided to find out by experimenting on himself.
John Bacon ( November 24, 1740 – August 4, 1799 ) was a British sculptor.
* Vlieter Incident was a mutiny of a squadron of the fleet of the Batavian Republic which caused it to be surrendered to the British without a fight in 1799 at the start of the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland.
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.
The French First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, first made truce proposals to British foreign secretary Lord Grenville as early as 1799.

1799 and ships
On February 8, 1799, British and Neapolitan ships landed 5, 000 troops and volunteers under Ruffo's command in Calabria.
In 1799, the Washington Navy Yard was established on the banks of the Anacostia River, and provided jobs to craftsmen who built and repaired ships.
In 1799 he had been given command of the frigate HMS Alcmene, during which time he captured dozens of small merchant ships and had a hand in seizing the Spanish treasure frigate Santa Brigada with $ 1, 400, 000 on board.
* USS Nautilus-two surface ships ( 1799 – 1859 ), and two submarines ( 1930 – 1980 )
On July 14, 1799, a British fleet of 60 ships landed with 16, 000 men under the command of Mustapha Pasha, a veteran of the last Russo-Turkish war.
The Coast Guard Ensign ( flag ) was first flown by the Revenue Cutter Service in 1799 to distinguish revenue cutters from merchant ships.

1799 and Bonaparte's
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.
Engels characterized the coup as " comical " and referred to it as occurring on " the 18th Brumaire "-- the date of the coup according to the 1799 republican calendar of France under Napoleon I. Marx was later to incorporate this comically ironic characterization of Louis Bonaparte's coup into his book about the coup.
He remained in exile in the Danish province of Holstein and the Batavian Republic for two more years, until Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, 9 November 1799.
It is probably because of his Girondinism that the Council of the Ancients was given the right of convoking the Council of Five Hundred outside Paris, an expedient which made possible Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état ( the 18 Brumaire in 1799 ).
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 ).
His powers of organization brought him to Napoleon Bonaparte's notice, and he took, part in the 18 Brumaire Coup ( 9 November 1799 ).
A short while later, Murat played an important, even pivotal, role in Bonaparte's " coup within a coup " of 18 Brumaire ( 9 November 1799 ), when Napoleon first assumed national power.
After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état against the Directory, the 18 Brumaire of 1799, he refused to occupy offices of the Consulate )( and consequently of the Empire ).
In November 1799, France was suffering the effects of military reverses brought on by Bonaparte's adventurism in the Middle East.
On Napoleon Bonaparte's return from Egypt in 1799, Maret joined the general's party which came to power with the 18 Brumaire Coup ( 9 November – 10 ).
Sébastiani joined Lucien Bonaparte's entourage, and endorsed Napoleon's political actions, taking an active part in the 18 Brumaire coup ( 9 November 1799 ).
The " Eighteenth Brumaire " refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar — the day Louis Bonaparte's uncle Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d ' état.
Lebrun was made Third Consul following Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup in the Year VIII ( 9-10 November 1799 ; see French Consulate ).
The Napoleonic era began in 1799 with Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d ' état, that overthrew the Directory and established the French Consulate.
The Battle of Abukir ( or Abukir ) was Napoleon Bonaparte's decisive victory over Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army on 25 July 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt ( 1798 ).
In 1799, for protesting against the 18 Fructidor invasion of the chamber by Pierre François Augereau, he was imprisoned until the Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup ( 9 November ).
The period covered spans the following political regimes: Napoleon Bonaparte's Consulate ( 1799 – 1804 ) and Empire ( 1804 – 1814 ), the Restoration under Louis XVIII and Charles X ( 1814 – 1830 ), the July Monarchy under Louis Philippe d ' Orléans ( 1830 – 1848 ), the Second Republic ( 1848 – 1852 ), the Second Empire under Napoleon III ( 1852 – 1871 ), and the first decades of the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ).

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