AD 1799
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s |
| Years: | 1796 1797 1798 – 1799 – 1800 1801 1802 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1799 MDCCXCIX |
| French Republican calendar | 7–8 |
| Ab urbe condita | 2552 |
| Armenian calendar | 1248 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6549 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1720–1721 |
| Bengali calendar | 1206 |
| Berber calendar | 2749 |
| British Regnal year | 39 Geo. 3 – 40 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2343 |
| Burmese calendar | 1161 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7307–7308 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4495 or 4435 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4496 or 4436 |
| Coptic calendar | 1515–1516 |
| Discordian calendar | 2965 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1791–1792 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5559–5560 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1855–1856 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1720–1721 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4899–4900 |
| Holocene calendar | 11799 |
| Igbo calendar | 799–800 |
| Iranian calendar | 1177–1178 |
| Islamic calendar | 1213–1214 |
| Japanese calendar | Kansei 11 (寛政１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1725–1726 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4132 |
| Minguo calendar | 113 before ROC 民前113年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 331 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2341–2342 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1925 or 1544 or 772 — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1926 or 1545 or 773 |
1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
- March 7 – Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- March 29 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
- July 7 – Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
- July 15 – In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
- July 25 – At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
- November 9 – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
- December – Napoleon becomes First Consul.
- The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
- The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes.
- The American System of manufacturing is invented.
Births
- for more information, see Category:1799 births.
- April 17 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
Deaths
- for more information, see Category:1799 deaths.
- August 29 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (b. 1717)