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What Happened in July 1799

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Historical Events

  • Jul 7 Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore

Rosetta Stone

Jul 15 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign

The Rosetta Stone

William Clark's Slave

Jul 24 William Clark is willed the slave York, who would go on to accompany him and play an important role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Explorer and Leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition William Clark

Battle of Abukir

Jul 25 French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

Events in 1799

Famous Birthdays

  • Jul 4 Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-59), born in Paris (d. 1859)
  • Jul 26 Isaac Babbitt, American goldsmith who invented babbitt's metal for bearings, born in Taunton, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
Born in 1799

Famous Deaths

  • Jul 7 William Curtis, English botanist and publisher (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53


What Happened in 1799

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