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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1799
1799 in Great Britain:
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Events from the year
1799 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
9 January –
Prime Minister
William Pitt the Younger introduces an
income tax of two
shillings to the
pound
[2] to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the
French Revolutionary Wars .
20 March–21 May – British troops lend aid to the
Ottoman defenders against the French
Siege of Acre .
[3]
4 May –
Battle of Seringapatam : British forces defeat the Sultan of
Mysore ; his kingdom is divided between the
Honourable East India Company and
Hyderabad .
[4]
1 July – Britain allies with
Russia ,
Austria ,
Portugal ,
Naples , and the
Ottoman Empire against
France .
[4]
12 July –
Parliament passes:
15–19 August – A combined French and Spanish fleet stands off the south west coast of England.
[7]
27 August –
Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland : Britain and
Russia send an expedition to the
Batavian Republic .
30 August – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland:
Vlieter Incident – A squadron of the
Batavian Republic 's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral
Samuel Story , surrenders to the British
Royal Navy under Sir
Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near
Wieringen without joining action.
6 October – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland:
Battle of Castricum – Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.
9 October – Sinking of
HMS Lutine (1779) , a famous treasure wreck, in the
West Frisian Islands .
16 October –
Action of 16 October 1799 : A Spanish treasure convoy worth more than £600,000 is captured by the Royal Navy off
Vigo .
18 October – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Capitulation of Anglo-Russian expedition forces in
North Holland .
23 October – The
River Severn ferry at
The Tuckies, Jackfield, Shropshire capsizes and 28 workers from
Coalport China Works are drowned.
[8]
5 November –
HMS Sceptre is wrecked in a storm in
Table Bay , South Africa, with the loss of 349 and 41 survivors.
[9]
The
Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in
Paternoster Row , London; as
The Lutterworth Press the imprint continues into the 21st century.
Ongoing
Births
January –
James Meadows Rendel , civil engineer (died
1856 )
12 January –
Priscilla Susan Bury , botanist (died
1872 )
8 February –
John Lindley , botanist (died
1865 )
16 March –
Anna Atkins , botanist and photographer (died
1871 )
[10]
29 March –
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ,
Prime Minister (died
1869 )
17 April –
Eliza Acton , cookery writer (died
1859 )
13 May –
Catherine Gore , author (died
1861 )
21 May –
Mary Anning , paleontologist (died
1847 )
23 May –
Thomas Hood , poet (died
1845 )
18 June –
William Lassell , astronomer (died
1880 )
25 June –
David Douglas , Scottish botanist (died
1834 in
Hawaii )
8 September –
James Bowman Lindsay , Scottish inventor (died
1862 )
21 December –
Ignatius Spencer , priest (died
1864 )
James Townsend Saward , barrister and forger (date of death unknown)
Approximate date –
William Simson , Scottish-born painter (died
1847 )
Deaths
26 January –
Gabriel Christie , Scottish-born general and settler in Montreal (born
1722 )
26 May –
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , Scottish judge and comparative linguist (born
1714 )
14 June – Sir
Patrick Warrender , Scottish soldier and politician (born
1731 )
[11]
4 August –
John Bacon , sculptor (born
1740 )
5 August –
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe , admiral (born
1726 )
25 August –
John Arnold , watchmaker (born
1736 )
3 September –
William Thomas , academic and Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral (born
1726 )
[12]
6 October –
William Withering , physician (born
1741 )
4 November –
Josiah Tucker , economist (born
1713 )
[13]
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 237–238.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"BBC History British History Timeline" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2007-09-04 .
^
"Unlawful Societies Act 1799" . vlexJustis . Retrieved 2023-03-15 .
^
Lloyd's List .
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-1-57607-090-1 .
^
"WARRENDER, Patrick (1731-99), of Lochend, Haddington" . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^ Hywel David Emanuel.
"Thomas, William (1734-1799), cleric and antiquary" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020 .
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