History
1799
General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Novalis, Schiller, Schlegel, Fichte, Herder (anti-Kant and Fichte), JF Saint-Lambert (catechism),
Schliermacher (religion), Mungo Park Travels in the Interior of Africa,
Art includes JL David "Rape of the Sabine Women"
Music includes Beethoven (first symphony), Haydn
- Religion: Pope Pius VI dies
- Science: Jurassic period named
Platypus first described and thought as hoax
- Technology: First geologic map created
- Deaths: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Dancer Barberina Campanini, Dramatist Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, George Washington,
Patrick Henry, Aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Beaumarchais, Pope Pius VI, Composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Scientist Spallanzani
Africa
- General: Plague in Africa kills 247,000 in Fez alone
- Egypt: Napoleon fights Turks then leaves
Egyptian Institute founded at Cairo
Rosetta Stone found near Rosetta Egypt
Americas
- Netherlands East Indies leaves Dutch control and falls under British control to 1949
Asia
- India: Ranjit Singh founds Sikh kingdom in Punjab
Tipu Sultan is defeated by Cornwallis and killed
Tippoo Sahib killed – British control most of southern India
- Mysore: Kingdom divided between Britain and Hyderabad
Europe
- General: End of first coalition of wars against France and start of second coalition against France (five nations) as Consulate rules to 1804
- France: Napoleon overthrows Directory - end of "Reign of Terror", becomes Consul, and appoints Talleyrand the Foreign Minister
Joseph Fouche appointed French Minister of Police
U of Cologne and Mainz founded
- Great Britain: Britain joins Russo-Turkish alliance against France
Church Missionary Society founded in London
Britain prohibits trade unions
- Holy Roman Empire: Austria declares war on France and defeats French army at Stockach, Magnano, and Zurich and is defeated at Bergen-op-Zoom
- Italian States: Napoleon organizes Parthenopean Republic in Piedmont
French defeat at Cassano ends the Cisalpine Republic
Russians enter Turin to counter French
French driven from Italy
- Russia: Russian government grants monopoly of reade in AK to Russia-American Company
In Siberia a perfectly preserves mammoth is found
- Switzerland: Pestalozzi's school in Burgdorf opened
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Napoleon defeats Turks at Abukir
- Syria: Napoleon advances - starts siege of Acre
Pacific
President:
Pres: John Adams
General
- Medicine: First smallpox vaccine given in US
- Politics: US sends more people to France
Treaty of 1778 scrapped
In response to Alien and Sedition acts, VA and KY resolutions say States can declare federal rules null and void - other states don't pass
- Science: Jefferson publishes paper on ground sloth fossils
South
- Florida: State of Muskogee in Western Florida declares independenct to 1803