1799 in France

Updated on Nov 17, 2023

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Events from the year 1799 in France

Incumbents

Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors

From 10 November – the three Consuls, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles-François Lebrun

The French Revolutionary Wars resumed, with a number of campaigns

9 November – Coup of 18 Brumaire

10 November – disbanding of the French Directory, and establishment of the French Consulate

20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850)

8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859).

9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878)

19 February – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician (born 1733)

5 April – Honoré Fragonard, anatomist (born 1732)

28 April – François Giroust, composer (born 1737)

9 May – Claude Balbastre, composer (born 1724)

18 May – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright, watchmaker, satirist and revolutionary (born 1732)

31 May – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, astronomer (born 1715)

7 September – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, scientist (born 1717)

17 October – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (born 1731)

9 December – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (born 1712)

18 December – Jean-Étienne Montucla, mathematician (born 1725)

31 December – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (born 1716)

31 December – Jean-François Marmontel, historian (born 1723)

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