Notable Historical Events - 1799
1799 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 9 |
British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon. |
Jan 10 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar |
Jan 14 |
Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets |
Jan 14 |
King of Naples flees before advancing French armies |
Jan 17 |
Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, was executed. |
Jan 25 |
1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont |
Feb 9 |
USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
Feb 13 |
1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts |
Feb 15 |
1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania |
Feb 25 |
1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land |
Feb 25 |
Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation |
Mar 2 |
Congress standardizes US weights & measures |
Mar 6 |
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine |
Mar 7 |
The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education. |
Mar 12 |
Austria declares war on France |
Mar 19 |
Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna |
Mar 26 |
Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine |
Mar 28 |
NY State abolished slavery |
Mar 29 |
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. |
Apr 16 |
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. |
Apr 20 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premieres in Weimar |
May 4 |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. |
May 22 |
Napoleon makes statement in support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews |
Jun 5 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition |
Jun 22 |
Britain & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic |
Jul 7 |
Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore. |
Jul 15 |
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. |
Jul 24 |
William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York |
Jul 25 |
French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir |
Aug 13 |
British fleet under Lord Seymour overthrows Suriname |
Aug 23 |
Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. |
Aug 27 |
British invasion army lands in North-Holland |
Aug 30 |
Batavian fleet surrenders to British |
Sep 1 |
Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) |
Sep 19 |
English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver |
Oct 2 |
Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands |
Oct 6 |
Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army |
Oct 9 |
Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast. |
Oct 10 |
Convention of Alkmaar: British/Russian invasion army departs |
Oct 22 |
Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition |
Nov 9 |
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France |
Nov 12 |
Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys |
Dec 10 |
Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so |
Dec 18 |
George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon |
Dec 24 |
Jacobin plot against Napoleon uncovered |
Dec 26 |
George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen" |
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