Year (''' MDCCXCIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday
"Calendar in year 1799 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar),
Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage:
Julian-1799
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- 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.
- The small town of Tignish , PE , Canada is founded.
- 12 year old Conrad John Reed finds what he described as a "heavy yellow rock" along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County , North Carolina and makes it a doorstop in his home. Conrad's father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802 , initiating the first gold rush in the United States.
- January 6 - Jedediah Smith , American fur trapper and explorer (d. 1831 )
- January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer , Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846 )
- February 4 - Almeida Garrett , Portuguese writer (d. 1854 )
- February 11 - Basil Moreau , founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873 )
- March 8 - Simon Cameron , American politician (d. 1889 )
- March 20 - Karl August Nicander , Swedish poet (d. 1839 )
- March 28 - Karl Adolph Von Basedow , a German Physician , famous for reporting the symptoms of Graves-Basedow Disease. (d. 1854 )
- March 29 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Of Derby , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1869 )
- April 12 - Henri Druey , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855 )
- April 17 - Eliza Acton , English cookery writer (d. 1859 )
- 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 )
- June 18 - Prosper Ménière , French physician (d. 1862 )
- July 4 - King Oscar I Of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859 )
- September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay , Scottish inventor (d. 1862 )
- September 10 - George Willison Adams , American abolitionist (d. 1879 )
- November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh , American religious leader (d. 1866 )
- December 30 - David Douglas , Scottish botanist (d. 1834 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Alexei Lvov , Russian composer (d. 1870 )
- --- Patrick MacDowell , Irish sculptor (d. 1870 )
- --- James Townsend Saward , English barrister and forger
- --- John Brown Russwurm , American abolitionist (d. 1851 )
: ''See also .''
- 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 )
- March 22 - Roddy McCorley , Irish republican
- May 4 - Tipu Sultan , Indian ruler (b. 1750 )
- May 19 - 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. 1744 )
- 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 )
: ''See also .''
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