WHAT HAPPENED IN 1799.
Look what happened the 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. (9. January 1799)

Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. (17. January 1799)

The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison. (3. March 1799)

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. (7. March 1799)

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. (16. April 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. (4. May 1799)

War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads. (27. May 1799)

Action of 18 June 1799: a frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith (18. June 1799)

Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of The Punjab (Sikh Empire) . (12. July 1799)

The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. (15. July 1799)

Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of five reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. (20. July 1799)

At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. (25. July 1799)

Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power. (23. August 1799)

The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars. (30. August 1799)

French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen. (19. September 1799)

Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. (9. October 1799)

Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. (12. October 1799)

Napoleon Bonaparte leads the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government). (9. November 1799)

War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch – Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch. (3. December 1799)

France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. (10. December 1799)