1799

Rulers:

• Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)

John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801)

• Napoléon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic (1799-1804)

Events:

March 11: Napoléon Bonaparte visits the plague victims of Jaffa.

Births:

• Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850)

Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837)

• Renoir, Léonard (1799-1874)

Deaths:

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-1799)

Art:

Blake, William (1757-1827): Baptism of Christ (c.1799)

Blake, William (1757-1827): Job and His Daughters (1799-1800)

Blake, William (1757-1827): St. Matthew (1799)

Blake, William (1757-1827): The Last Supper (1799)

• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando (1798-1800)

• Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): La maja desnuda (1795-1800)

Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Mariana Waldstein (1797-1799)

Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): San Ambrosio (c.1796-99)

Turner, Joseph (1775-1851): Copy of Poussin’s Landscape (1799)

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