April 28 – Two French diplomats to the
Second Congress of Rastatt are killed and another badly injured by Austrian cavalry, as they tried to leave the town. An inquiry was held, which blamed French emigres.
May 21 – The
Siege of Acre ends after two months;
Napoleon's attempt to widen his Middle Eastern campaign into Syria is frustrated by Ottoman forces, and he withdraws to Egypt.
August 29 –
Pope Pius VI, at the time the longest reigning Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, dies as a
prisoner of war in the citadel of the French city of
Valence, after 24½ years of rule.
September 10 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland -
Battle of Krabbendam: the Russo-British expedition force defends its initial gains from attacks by Franco-Dutch forces.[2]
October 2 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland –
Battle of Alkmaar: the Russo-British expedition force wins a small tactical victory over the Franco-Dutch forces.
October 6 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland –
Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.[5]
Conrad John Reed, 12, finds what he describes as a "heavy yellow rock" along Little Meadow Creek in
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.
December 14 –
George Washington, military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention (1787), and the 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
^* (in Dutch)Krayenhoff, C.R.T. (1832) Geschiedkundige Beschouwing van den Oorlog op het grondgebied der Bataafsche Republiek in 1799. J.C. Vieweg
[1]Archived November 12, 2022, at the
Wayback Machine Page=115
^Nadaraja, T. (1972). The Legal System of Ceylon in Its Historical Setting. E. J. Brill. p. 181.
^Formica, Marina (2004). "The Protagonists and the Principal Phases of the Roman Republic of 1798 to 1799". In Burton, Deborah; et al. (eds.). Tosca's Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History. Northeastern University Press. p. 67.
^"not known". International Review of Military History. ICMH, International Commission of Military History: 40. 1984.
^"The Autobiography of Sir John Barrow".
The United Service Magazine. H. Colburn. 1847. pp.
337. Retrieved November 4, 2008.
^Lichtenberg, Georg (2012). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 2.
ISBN9781438441986.
April 28 – Two French diplomats to the
Second Congress of Rastatt are killed and another badly injured by Austrian cavalry, as they tried to leave the town. An inquiry was held, which blamed French emigres.
May 21 – The
Siege of Acre ends after two months;
Napoleon's attempt to widen his Middle Eastern campaign into Syria is frustrated by Ottoman forces, and he withdraws to Egypt.
August 29 –
Pope Pius VI, at the time the longest reigning Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, dies as a
prisoner of war in the citadel of the French city of
Valence, after 24½ years of rule.
September 10 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland -
Battle of Krabbendam: the Russo-British expedition force defends its initial gains from attacks by Franco-Dutch forces.[2]
October 2 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland –
Battle of Alkmaar: the Russo-British expedition force wins a small tactical victory over the Franco-Dutch forces.
October 6 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland –
Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.[5]
Conrad John Reed, 12, finds what he describes as a "heavy yellow rock" along Little Meadow Creek in
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.
December 14 –
George Washington, military leader of the American Revolution, president of the Constitutional Convention (1787), and the 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
^* (in Dutch)Krayenhoff, C.R.T. (1832) Geschiedkundige Beschouwing van den Oorlog op het grondgebied der Bataafsche Republiek in 1799. J.C. Vieweg
[1]Archived November 12, 2022, at the
Wayback Machine Page=115
^Nadaraja, T. (1972). The Legal System of Ceylon in Its Historical Setting. E. J. Brill. p. 181.
^Formica, Marina (2004). "The Protagonists and the Principal Phases of the Roman Republic of 1798 to 1799". In Burton, Deborah; et al. (eds.). Tosca's Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History. Northeastern University Press. p. 67.
^"not known". International Review of Military History. ICMH, International Commission of Military History: 40. 1984.
^"The Autobiography of Sir John Barrow".
The United Service Magazine. H. Colburn. 1847. pp.
337. Retrieved November 4, 2008.
^Lichtenberg, Georg (2012). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 2.
ISBN9781438441986.