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.

* 1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.

In 1799 Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.

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 Electress gave birth for last time in 1799 to another stillborn child.

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.

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.

Image: Humboldt gasmask 1799. jpg | A primitive respirator was designed by A. von Humboldt in 1799 for underground mining

It was not until 1799, when Charles Tennant patented a process for producing solid bleaching powder ( calcium hypochlorite ) that it became a commercial success.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

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.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

* February 25 – Joseph McDowell, U. S. Representative for North Carolina ( 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.

In 1799, it became county seat for newly created Kennebec County.

In 1799, Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.

" He was admitted to the Painting Department of the École des Beaux-Arts in October 1799, and won, after tying for second place in 1800, the Grand Prix de Rome in 1801 for his Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles.

* 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 first elections for the administrative organs of these new entities were held in March, 1799.

The new French ambassador Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonville he sent to The Hague in 1799 was just the man for this job.

By the late 1780s, trade relations had opened with the Tlingits, and in 1799 the Russian-American Company ( RAC ) was formed in order to monopolize the fur trade, also serving as an imperialist vehicle for the Russification of Alaska Natives.

The Russian-American Company was formed in 1799 with the influence of Nikolay Rezanov for the purpose of hunting sea otters for their fur.

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.

The 1799 Resolutions concluded by stating the Kentucky was entering its " solemn protest " against those Acts.

* 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.

The French declaration of war against Tuscany led to his removal ( he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador ) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his arrival, on 29 August 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope ( except possibly St. Peter ).

In 1799 he published a polemic against the Italian Jansenists titled II Trionfo della Santa Sede (" The Triumph of the Holy See "), which passed through various editions in Italy and was translated into several European languages.

In 1799 the 49th was assigned to the Helder Expedition against the Batavian Republic ( now known as the Netherlands ), to be led by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

" Antagonist of Federalist everywhere he gathered petition signatures against the Alien and Sedition Acts, which led to his arrest by Judge Cooper and transport in open wagon in the fall of 1799, to New York City for trial.

The Battle of Bergen, also called the Battle of Bergen-Binnen, was fought on 19 September 1799, and resulted in a French-Dutch victory under General Brune and General Daendels against the Russians and British under the Duke of York who had landed in North Holland.

The Battle of Trebbia or the Napoleonic battle of river Trebbia was fought on June 17 – 20, 1799 near the Trebbia River in northern Italy during the joint campaign of the Russian and Austrian troops of about 30, 000 men against the French army of 33, 000 to 35, 000 men.

The boers of Graaff Reinet did not surrender until an army had been sent against them, and in 1799 and again in 1801 they rose in revolt.

He allied with General André Rigaud and Jean Pierre Boyer against Toussaint L ' Ouverture in a failed rebellion, the so-called " War of Knives ", in the South of Saint-Domingue, which began in June 1799.

In April and May 1799, Franz Vincenz Schmid led an uprising against the occupying French army.

Britain and Austria organized a new coalition against France in 1798, including for the first time Russia, although no action occurred until 1799 except against Naples.

In the course of the War of the Second Coalition against France ( 1799 – 1802 ) Napoléon Bonaparte urged Prussia to occupy the continental British dominions.

Over the course of the War of the Second Coalition against France ( 1799 – 1802 ), he travelled to Berlin in 1801, in order to prevent the impending Prussian occupation of the Electorate.

In spite of Hunter's vehement defence of the charges made against him, he was recalled in a dispatch dated 5 November 1799 from the Duke of Portland, one of the three secretaries of state.

The current Council of State was established by the French Consulate government in 1799 as a judicial body mandated to adjudicate claims against the State and assist in the drafting of important laws.

The soldiers of Kings Puli Thevar, Veerapandiya Kattabomman and Maruthu Pandiyar ( 1760 – 1799 ) relied mainly on their silambam prowess in their warfare against the British Army.

However, in February 1799 Paul summoned him to take the field again, this time against the French Revolutionary armies in Italy.

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 the war against the Second Coalition in 1799, he was promoted successively general of brigade and général de division.

In 1798 he administered the civil and military government of Piedmont at the time of the abdication of the king of Sardinia, and in 1799 he distinguished himself greatly as a divisional commander in the campaign against the Austrians and Russians.