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1799

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
November 9: Napoleon overthrows the French Directory, ends French Revolution with the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
July 15: French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
1799 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1799
MDCCXCIX
French Republican calendar7–8
Ab urbe condita2552
Armenian calendar1248
ԹՎ ՌՄԽԸ
Assyrian calendar6549
Balinese saka calendar1720–1721
Bengali calendar1206
Berber calendar2749
British Regnal year39 Geo. 3 – 40 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2343
Burmese calendar1161
Byzantine calendar7307–7308
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4496 or 4289
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4497 or 4290
Coptic calendar1515–1516
Discordian calendar2965
Ethiopian calendar1791–1792
Hebrew calendar5559–5560
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1855–1856
 - Shaka Samvat1720–1721
 - Kali Yuga4899–4900
Holocene calendar11799
Igbo calendar799–800
Iranian calendar1177–1178
Islamic calendar1213–1214
Japanese calendarKansei 11
(寛政11年)
Javanese calendar1725–1726
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4132
Minguo calendar113 before ROC
民前113年
Nanakshahi calendar331
Thai solar calendar2341–2342
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
September 25: Second Battle of Zurich

1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1799th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 799th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1799, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–June

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Carl Adolph von Basedow
Honoré de Balzac
Alexander Pushkin

July–December

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Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Qianlong Emperor
Tipu Sultan

July–December

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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
George Washington

References

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