1799 in France
This article lists events from the year 1799 in France
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See also: | Other events of 1799 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Incumbents
- Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors
- From 10 November – the three Consuls, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles-François Lebrun
Events
- The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns
- 9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire
- 10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate
Births
- 20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850)
- 8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859).[1]
- 9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878)
Deaths
- 19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733)
- 5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732)
- 28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737)
- 9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724)
- 18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732)
- 31 May – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer (born 1715)
- 7 September – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist (born 1717)
- 17 October – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (born 1731)
- 9 December – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (born 1712)
- 18 December – Jean-Étienne Montucla, mathematician (born 1725)
- 31 December – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (born 1716)
- 31 December – Jean-François Marmontel, historian (born 1723)
References
- Carlquist, G (1924). "Oskar I". In Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 18 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 647–649. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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