Important Historical Events of the year 1799, Year 1799 in History

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List of 1799 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1799

What happened in the year 1799?

Date	Event
January 9, 1799	British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
January 17, 1799	Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
March 3, 1799	The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
March 7, 1799	Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
April 16, 1799	French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
May 4, 1799	Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
May 27, 1799	War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
June 18, 1799	Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
July 12, 1799	Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
July 15, 1799	The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
July 20, 1799	Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
July 25, 1799	Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
August 23, 1799	Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
August 30, 1799	The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
September 19, 1799	French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
September 26, 1799	War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign.
October 9, 1799	HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
October 12, 1799	Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
November 9, 1799	Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
December 3, 1799	War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
December 10, 1799	France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
December 26, 1799	Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".