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.

In January 1799 he became a Rear-Admiral.

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

In 1799, the Dutch East India Company, formerly the world's largest company, became bankrupt, partly due to the rise of competitive free trade.

Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it wasn't until 1846 when an American Dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.

* 1799: Napoleon staged a coup d ' état and became First Consul of France.

The site was sacked by Napoleon's troops in 1799 and from the dissolution of the Italian monasteries in 1866, Monte Cassino became a national monument.

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.

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), the end of the First Republic ( 1792 – 1804 ), and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon ( 1804 – 1814 / 1815 ) – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the heirs of the House of Bourbon, who once again became possessors of the Kingdom of France.

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 Place des Vosges in Paris was so renamed in 1799 when the department became the first to pay the new Revolutionary taxes.

In 1799 the northern and western parts of Wilkes County became Ashe County.

In 1799 the western third of what was left of Tyrrell County became Washington County.

Guyandotte, which became a neighborhood of Huntington in 1891, was founded in 1799 on land that was originally part of the French and Indian War veteran's Savage Grant.

It became the seat of Livingston County when it was formed in 1799, later the seat of Caldwell County in 1809, and finally the seat of Lyon County when it was formed in 1854.

The town is named in honor of Moses Gill, a member of Massachusetts ' Executive Council who became lieutenant governor in 1794 and acting governor in 1799 when Governor Increase Sumner died.

Sempronius became a town in 1799, but its area was later reduced by the formation of newer towns: Marcellus ( Onondaga County ) in 1804, Moravia and Niles in 1833.

The village was the first county seat of Essex County when it was formed in 1799 until 1807, when Elizabethtown became the county seat.

The town was first settled in 1799 when four brothers named Andrew, John, Samuel, and Daniel Millet left their homes in Connecticut, traveled west and became the first settlers in what is now the hamlet of Walworth.

Elizabethtown, later renamed Columbia, was established on the banks of the Scuppernong River in 1793 and became the Tyrrell County seat in 1799.

An elder son, Matthew Talbot Baines ( 1799 – 1860 ), went to the bar ; he became recorder of Kingston upon Hull in ( 1837 ), M. P.

In 1798 the society became increasingly split and in 1799 it and several other radical groups were declared illegal under the Corresponding Societies Act.

On 1 April 1795 his father succeeded Ludwig's uncle, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on 16 February 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore.

In 1789 his Observations sur les hôpitaux ( Observations on hospitals, 1790 ) procured him an appointment as administrator of hospitals in Paris, and in 1795 he became professor of hygiene at the medical school of Paris, a post which he exchanged for the chair of legal medicine and the history of medicine in 1799.

The county was formed in 1799 from the western third of Tyrrell County.

The county is home to Reed Gold Mine, site of the first gold discovery in the United States in 1799.

In late 1799 composed of 977 square miles, Ashe was finally pronounced an official county of the United States and of North Carolina.

Falmouth was designated the county seat in 1799.

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

The county is named for Colonel John Campbell ( 1735 – 1799 ), Revolutionary War soldier.

The county was formed out of Hardin County by a 1799 enactment of the Kentucky General Assembly, but the first Fiscal Court did not meet until 1800.

Around 1799, William Appling deeded a tract of land to the county for the purpose of building a courthouse.

By October 29, 1799, a census for the city and county of Henderson, Kentucky.

The North Carolina General Assembly created a special commission in 1799 to create a county seat for Ashe County.

There is a Religious Society of Friends ( Quaker ) Meeting House in Pennsdale that was built in 1799, and is one of the oldest buildings and perhaps the oldest house of worship in the county.

The city of Kingston was established on October 23, 1799, as part of an effort to partition Knox County ( the initial effort to form a separate county failed, but succeeded two years later ).

Subsequently, the town was reduced by the creation of new towns in the county: in 1793, part of Bainbridge was used to form the parts of the Towns of Norwich and Oxford ; more of Bainbridge was used for the Town of Greene ( 1798 and 1799 ) and the Town of Afton ( 1857 ).

The county was named for John Milton, Secretary of State of Georgia from 1777 to 1799.

In 1799 a " provincial publication says that a MATRIMONIAL PLAN is proposed to be established throughout every county, city, or town, in England or Wales.

On April 2, 1784 the new state's legislature voted to change the name to Washington County, in honor of George Washington, stating, “ From and after the passing of this act, the county of Tryon shall be called and known by the name of Montgomery, and the county of Charlotte by the name of Washington .” In 1799 Clinton County was created from part of Washington County.

He served in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1799 to 1803 and served as a Ross county delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1802.

Jeremiah Mundy was a native of Virginia and came to Lincoln county in 1799.

After 1791, when Otsego County was split off from Montgomery County, Cooper became county judge and later served two terms in Congress, elected as a Federalist to the 4th ( March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797 ) and the 6th United States Congresses ( March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801 ).

# Statistical Accounts of Scotland: 1791 – 1799 ; and 1843-45 ( From the menu option: Choose from county lists: Lanark ; then Choose report: Bertram Shotts )

In 1799, Martin and his old friend Major John Redd of Henry County served as the two county representatives on the Virginia commission relating to the Alien and Sedition Acts.