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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monstersis a 1799 print by Goya from the Caprichos series. It is the image the sleeping artist surrounded by the winged ghoulies and beasties unleashed by unreason.

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Art and culture

• Caprichos by Goya
• Lucinde (1799)

Births

• Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850)

Deaths

• Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799)

Events of 1799

January - June

• January 9 - 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.
• March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
• March 7 - Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• March 22 - Roddy McCorley executed in the town of Toomebridge by the British for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798
• March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
• May 4 - Tippu Sultan defeated and killed in Battle of Seringapatam by the British.

July - December

• July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
• July 12- Ranjit Singh the Great conquers Lahore and becomes ruler of the Punjab.
• July 15 - In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
• July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
• August 27 - British and Russian expedition to the Batavian Republic (now the Netherlands).
• August 30 - British forces under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell capture the entire Dutch fleet.
• October 6 - Franco Dutch forces defeat the Russo British expedition force in the battle of Castricum
• October 9 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, a famous treasure wreck.
• October 18 - Capitulation of Anglo-Russian expedition forces in Holland.
• November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
• December - Napoleon becomes First Consul.
• December 14 - George Washington, the first President of the United States, dies in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Undated

• 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.

Ongoing events

• French Revolution (1789-1799)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Fictional events

• The events of Bernard Cornwell's 1997 novel Sharpe's Tiger
• During a flashback in an episode of Assy McGee, President John Adams was hiding under a bridge with a woman he described as "his whore", giving her a gift, and getting ready to corpulate with her, when an angry mob ran by looking for them. They immediately covered each other in ash to blend in with the dark ground & crouched down to resemble large rocks. However, after the mob passed, the woman revealed to John that she was allergic to ash, and her allergies were so overwhelmed that the reaction had proved to be fatal. She died telling John Adams she loved him. Her death proved devastating to him.

Births

• January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846)
• May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author (d. 1850)
• 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)
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  • 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 Category: 1799 births.

Deaths

• 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)