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| yp1=1796
| yp2=1797
| yp3=1798
| year=1799
| ya1=1800
| ya2=1801
| ya3=1802
| dp3=1760s
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1799 was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Ongoing events
Births
- January 6 - Jedediah Smith , American fur trapper and explorer (d. 1831 )
- January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer , Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846 )
- March 8 - Simon Cameron , American politician (d. 1889 )
- March 20 - Karl August Nicander , Swedish poet (d. 1839 )
- April 12 - Henri Druey , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855 )
- May 13 - Catherine Gore , English author (d. 1861 )
- May 20 - Honoré De Balzac , French author (d. 1850 )
- May 21 - Mary Anning , British paleontologist (d. 1847 )
- June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin , Russian author (d. 1837 )
- July 4 - King Oscar I Of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859 )
- June 18 - Prosper Ménière , French physician (d. 1862 )
- September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay , Scottish inventor (d. 1862 )
- September 10 - George Willison Adams , Ohio abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor (d. 1879 )
- November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh , American religious leader (d. 1866 )
- December 30 - David Douglas , Scottish botanist (d. 1834 )
Unknown dates
- January 9 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician (b. 1718 )
- January 26 - Gabriel Christie , British general (b. 1722 )
- February 6 - Étienne-Louis Boullée , French architect (b. 1728 )
- February 7 - Qianlong Emperor Of China (b. 1711 )
- February 19 - Jean-Charles De Borda , French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733 )
- May 4 - Tipu Sultan , Indian ruler (b. 1750 )
- May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais , French writer (b. 1732 )
- May 26 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , Scottish judge (b. 1714 )
- May 31 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier , French astronomer (b. 1715 )
- June 6 - Patrick Henry , American revolutionary politician (b. 1736 )
- August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier , French inventor (b. 1745 )
- August 4 - John Bacon , British sculptor (b. 1740 )
- August 5 - Richard Howe , British admiral (b. 1726 )
- August 29 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717 )
- August 31 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin , French architect (b. 1720 )
- September 7 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier , French botanist (b. 1717 )
- October 6 - William Withering , British physician (b. 1741 )
- October 24 - Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf , Austrian composer (b. 1739 )
- December 14 - George Washington , first President Of The United States (b. 1732 )
- December 18 - Jean-Étienne Montucla , French mathematician (b. 1725 )
- December 31 - Jean-François Marmontel , French historian and writer (b. 1723 )
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