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March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
March 7 - Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
March 29 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state .
July 7 - Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
July 15 - In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
July 25 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
November 9 - Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
December - Napoleon becomes First Consul.
The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes.
The American System of manufacturing is invented.
Ongoing events
French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Births
James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer
January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, caricature artist, and comic creator
April 12 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (d. 1861)
May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author
May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician
September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist
Deaths
January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China
February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer
June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
August 2 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor
August 4 - John Bacon - British sculptor
August 29 - Pope Pius VI
October 6 - William Withering, British doctor
October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
December 14 - George Washington, first president of the United States
Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect
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