1799 in France

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1799
in
France

Decades:
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
See also:Other events of 1799
History of France  • Timeline  • Years
Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power during the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

This article lists events from the year 1799 in France

Incumbents[]

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[]

Oscar I of Sweden was born in Paris.
  • 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[]

Self portrait, Guillaume Voiriot.
  • 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)
  • 27 June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)[2]
  • 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)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Carlquist, G (1924). "Oskar I". In Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 18 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 647–649. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ^ Hopkins Porter, Cecelia (2014). Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-25208-009-8.

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