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| - | [[Image:The Sleep of Reason.jpg|thumb|''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]''is a [[1799]] print by [[Goya]] from the ''[[Caprichos]]'' series. It is the image the sleeping artist surrounded by the winged [[ghoulies]] and [[beast]]ies [[unleashed]] by [[unreason]].]]{{Template}} | + | [[Image:The Sleep of Reason.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' is a print by [[Francisco Goya]] from the ''[[Caprichos]]'' series]] |
| + | [[Image:Rape of the Sabine Women by David.jpg|thumb|200px|'''''The Intervention of the Sabine Women''''' ([[1796]]-[[1799|99]], detail) by [[Jacques-Louis David ]]]] | ||
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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *''[[Caprichos]]'' by Goya | ||
| - | *''[[Lucinde]]'' (1799) | ||
| - | == Births == | ||
| - | *[[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799 – 1850) | ||
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| - | ==Deaths == | ||
| - | *[[Étienne-Louis Boullée]] (1728 - 1799) | ||
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| - | == Events of 1799 == | ||
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| - | ===January - June=== | ||
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| - | * [[January 9]] - [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[William Pitt the Younger]] introduces an [[income tax]] of two [[shilling]]s to the [[Pound Sterling|pound]] to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. | ||
| - | * [[March 1]] - [[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]] [[James Ross (US politician)|James Ross]] becomes [[President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate]]. | ||
| - | * [[March 7]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] captures [[Jaffa, Israel|Jaffa]] in [[Palestine]] and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 [[Albania]]n 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. | ||
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| - | ===July - December=== | ||
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| - | * [[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 [[Egypt]]ian port city of [[Rosetta]], [[France|French]] Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | ||
| - | * [[July 25]] - At [[Aboukir]] in [[Egypt]], [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] defeats 10,000 [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Mamluk]] troops under [[Mustafa Pasha (Egypt)|Mustafa Pasha]]. | ||
| - | * [[August 27]] - [[Great Britain|British]] and [[Russia|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 (1785)|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]]. | ||
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| - | ===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|American System]] of manufacturing is invented. | ||
| - | * The small town of [[Tignish]], [[Prince Edward Island|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|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. | ||
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| ===Ongoing events=== | ===Ongoing events=== | ||
| * [[French Revolution]] ([[1789]]-1799) | * [[French Revolution]] ([[1789]]-1799) | ||
| - | * [[French Revolutionary Wars]] ([[1792]]-[[1802]])-[[Second Coalition]]/Egyptian Campaign | + | === Visual art === |
| - | * [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1799-[[1815]])-[[Second Coalition]]/Egyptian Campaign | + | *''[[Caprichos]]'' by Goya |
| - | + | === Fiction === | |
| - | ===Fictional events=== | + | *''[[The Crimes of Love]]'' by Sade |
| - | + | *''[[Lucinde]]'' by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | |
| - | * The events of [[Bernard Cornwell]]'s [[1997]] novel ''[[Sharpe's Tiger (novel)|Sharpe's Tiger]]'' | + | *''[[Tales of Terror]]'', wrongly ascribed to Matthew Gregory Lewis |
| - | * 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 [[sexual intercourse|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. | + | *''[[St. Leon]]'' by William Godwin |
| - | + | === Non fiction === | |
| - | ==Births== | + | *''[[Reflections on the Novel]]'' by Sade |
| - | {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kansei]] 10 – 11}} | + | == Births == |
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| - | * [[January 6]] - [[Jedediah Smith]], American fur trapper and explorer (d. [[1831]]) | + | |
| * [[January 31]] - [[Rodolphe Töpffer]], Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. [[1846]]) | * [[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 [[Germans|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 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 6]] - [[Aleksandr Pushkin]], Russian author (d. [[1837]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 18]] - [[Prosper Meniere|Prosper Ménière]], French physician (d. [[1862]]) | + | ==Deaths == |
| - | * [[July 4]] - King [[Oscar I of Sweden]] and Norway (d. [[1859]]) | + | *[[February 12]] - [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]], French architect (b. [[1728]]) |
| - | * [[September 8]] - [[James Bowman Lindsay]], Scottish inventor (d. [[1862]]) | + | {{GFDL}} |
| - | * [[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]]) | + | |
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| - | *[[January 9]] - [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1718]]) | + | |
| - | *[[January 26]] - [[Gabriel Christie (general)|Gabriel Christie]], British general (b. [[1722]]) | + | |
| - | *[[February 6]] - [[Etienne-Louis Boullee|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]] - [[Montgolfier brothers|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]]) | + | |
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The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1796-99, detail) by Jacques-Louis David
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Art and culture
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Ongoing events
- French Revolution (1789-1799)
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Visual art
- Caprichos by Goya
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Fiction
- The Crimes of Love by Sade
- Lucinde by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Tales of Terror, wrongly ascribed to Matthew Gregory Lewis
- St. Leon by William Godwin
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Non fiction
- Reflections on the Novel by Sade
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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)
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Deaths
- February 12 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
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