Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1799
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Literature
- William Godwin, St. Leon
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Propylae
- Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice
- Hölderlin, Hyperion II
- Novalis, Die Christenheit, oder Europa
- Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde
- William Wordsworth, "Two-Part Prelude," "Lucy Gray" and the "Lucy
poems"
- 21 April: Dorothy and William Wordsworth return to England
- 29 July: Samuel Taylor Coleridge returns to Nether Stowey
- October-November: Wordsworth and Coleridge make a walking tour of the
Lake District
- 26 October: Coleridge meets Sara Hutchinson, sister of Wordsworth's
future wife
- 20 December: William and Dorothy Wordsworth move to Dove Cottage,
Grasmere
Theatre
Art
- May: William Blake, The Last Supper, exhibited at the Royal
Academy
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia
- Humphry Davy develops nitrous oxide and uses it for
anesthesia
Politics & Law
- Commons rejects abolition
- Commons passes an African slave coast restriction act, rejected by
Lords
- Sugar prices begin to decline
- Britain conquers Surinam
- 9 November: Napoleon becomes the First Consul of France in the Coup of
18 Brumaire
- Napoleon continues his campaigns in Egypt and the Middle East
Philosophy & Theology
- Johann Gottfried von Herder, Understanding and Experience: A
Metacritique on the Critique of Pure Reason
Milestones
Miscellaneous
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