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| 1799 |
| | | In a famous moment of calculated courage Napoleon visits and touches the sick in a plague hospital in Jaffa | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Sikh maharajah, Ranjit Singh, captures Lahore and makes it his capital in his campaign to unify the Punjab | |
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| 1799 |
| | | English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks | |
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| 1799 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Portuguese prince regent, the future John VI, rules on behalf of his deranged mother, Queen Maria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, is killed fighting the British at Seringapatam | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The Queen’s Head pub is built in the orchard of John Dee’s house | |
|  | The Queen's Head in Mortlake
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