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What Happened in January 1799

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Historical Events

Income Tax

Jan 9 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon

British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
  • Jan 10 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar

Whitney's Muskets

Jan 14 American inventor Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

Inventor of the Cotton Gin Eli Whitney
  • Jan 14 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
  • Jan 17 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed
  • Jan 25 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
Events in 1799

Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 6 Jedediah Smith, American fur trader and explorer, born in Tioga County, New York (d. 1831)
  • Jan 7 Daniel Tyler, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brooklyn, Connecticut (d. 1882)
  • Jan 22 Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
Born in 1799

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 6 Frederick, Dutch Prince of Orange and general, second son of King William V, dies of a fever at 25
  • Jan 9 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
  • Jan 22 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist, geologist and alpinist, dies at 58
  • Jan 26 Gabriel Christie, British general in North America and the Caribbean who settled in Quebec, dies at 76


What Happened in 1799

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