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.

* July 8 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway ( b. 1799 )

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

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.

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.

In 1799, King Ferdinand III created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the title of Duke for the help he had provided him in bloodily repressing the revolution in Naples and so in recovering his throne.

On 8 July 1799, King Ferdinand arrived from Palermo, and the subsequent trials were conducted in the most arbitrary fashion.

The part of Newtown lying south of King Street was a portion of the two estates granted by Governor Arthur Phillip to the Superintendent of Convicts, Nicholas Devine, in 1794 and 1799.

* Portugal: Mary I ( 1777 – 1816 ), John VI ( Regent 1799 – 1816, King 1816 – 1826 )

On 23 April 1799 the dukedom of Kent was, as a joint title with the dukedom of Strathearn and the earldom of Dublin, given to King George III's fourth son, Prince Edward Augustus.

In 1799 King Ferdinand IV of Naples bestowed the honour of Duke of Bronte on Lord Nelson for fighting off the French Navy.

The minister Don Mariano Luis de Urquijo recommended Alexander von Humboldt's American expedition to the King of Spain, the Humboldt expedition reached South America in 1799 and departed from North America in 1804.

In 1799, Yashwantrao Holkar was crowned King, he captured Ujjain.

* Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston ( 1754 – 1799 )

In 1799 he was created Duke of Bronté ( Duca di Bronté ), of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies by King Ferdinand I, which title he was given royal sanction to use in Britain.

This ducal title was conferred on his great-great-uncle Horatio Nelson in 1799 by King Ferdinand, this as a reward for his support of the monarchy.

Hiram Cox ( died 1799 )</ ref > was the first British Resident to the King of independent Burma ( October 1796 – July 1797 ), and there were more discontinuous posting to that court, in the 19th century, never satisfactory to either party ; after the British conquest of Burma there were two separate British Residents in a border zone of that country: in the Northern Shan States and in the Southern Shan States ( each several tribal states, usually ruled by a Saopha = Sawbwa ) in 1945 – 1948 ( each group had been under a Superintendent from 1887 / 88 till 1922, then both jointly under a Resident Commissioner till the 1942 Japanese occupation )

Gustav, Prince Vasa ( 9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August / 5 August 1877 at Pillnitz ), born Crown Prince of Sweden and later called Gustaf Gustafsson von Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Vasa ) was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica.

( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,

King Island was discovered by Captain Reed, hunting seals in the schooner Martha in 1799.

Beyond his broadcasting and journalistic work, Greene was also known for his appreciation of beer and eventually became a director of the Greene King Brewery, originally established by his great-grandfather, Benjamin Greene, in 1799.

He next entered into relations with the family of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in 1799, after the coup of 18 Brumaire, again entered politics, becoming successively préfet of the Seine-Inférieure département, member of the Conseil d ' État, and finance minister to Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, during the First French Empire.

The Kingdom of Mysore came under the British during the reign of King Krishnaraja Wadiyar III ( 1799 – 1868 ).

In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces on the Rhine, Charles out-generaled Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Amberg and Würzburg, and forced Jean Victor Marie Moreau to withdraw across the Rhine, and followed these victories with others at Zürich, Ostrach, Stockach, and Messkirch in 1799.

Jacques Étienne Victor ( 1799 – 1855 ) took part in Louis de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the Uranie from 1817 to 1821, and on his return to France devoted himself to his journalism and the drama.

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François Victor Masséna, 2nd Duke of Rivoli and 3rd Prince of Essling ( born April 2, 1799 in Antibes, died April 16, 1863 ) was an amateur ornithologist.

Since 1799, the Comédie-Française has been housed in the salle Richelieu ( architect Victor Louis ) at 2, rue de Richelieu.

# Charles Emmanuel ( 1796 – 1799 ) died of smallpox.

In 1799, William Pierre Le Cocq, in a letter written in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, provides a reference to the game hockey: “ I must now describe to you the game of Hockey ; we have each a stick turning up at the end.

* 1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of five reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.

* 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10, 000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.

* 1799 – Oscar I of Sweden ( d. 1859 )

* Oscar I of Sweden ( 1799 – 1859 )

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.

* John, Prince of Brazil ( 1767 – 1826 ) served as regent of Portugal for his mother Queen Maria I, who had become mentally unfit to rule, from 1799 to 1816.

The other one was published by Gauss in 1799 and it was mainly geometric, but it had a topological gap, filled by Alexander Ostrowski in 1920, as discussed in Smale 1981 ( Smale writes, "... I wish to point out what an immense gap Gauss ' proof contained.

Its charter was laid out in a 1799 ukase, by the new Tsar Paul I, which granted the company monopolistic control over trade in the Aleutian Islands and the North America mainland, south to 55 ° north latitude.

Thomas Jefferson, stated as early as 1799 that " Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto ", and in 1801 " I deem of the essential principles of our government be peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

After Napoleon I ’ s stay in Malta, the Palace was the seat of the National Assembly of France from February 1799 to the departure of the French in September 1800.

In 1799, Napoleon I made him a senator.

The Institution's palatial home has been greatly enlarged and redeveloped since 1799, and is a Grade I listed building.

* Hassan Nooraddeen I ( died 1799 ), sultan of the Maldives

For instance, in 1799 he writes to Wordsworth: " I am anxiously eager to have you steadily employed on ' The Recluse '...

* ( 1. 1 ) Prince Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, born 4 July 1799 ; Prince of Sweden from 26 September 1810 ; Crown Prince from 5 February 1818 ; succeeded 8 March 1844 as Oscar I of Sweden

He reported to the Post Office Secretary's Office on 27 September 1799 that: " the mails are both delivered which I assure you is not so easy or businesslike as I imagined it would be, for although the letters are partly sorted in London to the different regiments, there are still a great number for persons not attached to any regiment who are so impatient to be supplied that immediately a mail arrives I am beset by at least a hundred of them.