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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1799.

Events

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  • Premières of the second and third parts of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein are performed at the Weimarer Hoftheater under Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
  • January 30 – Die Piccolomini.
  • April 20 – Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein's Death) as Wallenstein.
  • April 13 – The father of Charles and Mary Lamb dies; Charles becomes his sister's guardian.{{Cite book |title=Young Charles Lamb, 1775-1802 |last=Courtney |first=Winifred A. |year=1982 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London|isbn=0-333-31534-0 |page=240 |accessdate=July 8, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMSyAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22sort+of+double+singleness%22+inauthor%3ACourtney&q=%22sort+of+double+singleness%22}}
  • May 8 – The Religious Tract Society is established as an evangelical publisher in Paternoster Row, London; it continues as The Lutterworth Press into the 21st century.{{cite book|author1=Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)|author2=William Jones|title=The Jubilee Memorial of the Religious Tract Society: Containing a Record of its Origin, Proceedings, and Results, A.D. 1799 to A.D. 1849|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGs_AQAAMAAJ|year=1850|publisher=The Society|page=14}}
  • December 20 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy first take up residence at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. William completes the first version of The Prelude during the year.
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  • A new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts is illustrated by Thomas Stothard.{{cite book|author1=Antonio Feliciano De Castilho|author2=Shelley M. Bennett|title=Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England Circa 1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZ2fAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=University of Missouri Press|page=75}}
  • The Monthly Magazine and American Review starts publication in the United States, edited by Charles Brockden Brown.{{Cite book |editor=Burt, Daniel S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C |title=The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-618-16821-7}}

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Births

  • January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (died 1846){{EB1911|wstitle= Töpffer, Rodolphe|volume=27|last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort |author-link= William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge | pages = 49–50 |short=1 }}
  • February 4
  • Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (died 1854){{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida |volume= 11 |last= Prestage |first= Edgar |author-link= Edgar Prestage | pages = 474–475 |short= 1 }}
  • Thomas Kibble Hervey, Scottish-born poet and critic (died 1859)
  • March – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (died 1841)
  • March 12 – Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (died 1888)
  • March 13 – Maria Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish poet, translator and dramatist (died 1878)
  • March 20 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (died 1839){{Runeberg |filename=nfbs |htmlno=0515 |name=Karl August Nicander}}
  • April 17 – Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer (died 1859){{cite book |title=An encyclopedia of British women writers |date=1998 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick, N.J. |isbn=0813525438 |page=1 |edition=Rev. and expanded}}
  • May 13 – Catherine Gore, English author (died 1861)
  • May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (died 1850){{cite book | last = Little | first = Iain | title = Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot | publisher = Longman | location = Harlow | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780582781863 | page=5}}
  • May 23 – Thomas Hood, English poet (died 1845){{cite web |title=Thomas Hood {{!}} British poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hood |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=5 May 2020 |language=en}}
  • June 6 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian dramatist and poet (died 1837)
  • October 9 – Louisa Stuart Costello Irish writer on travel and history (died 1870)
  • November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888){{cite book|title = Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

|url = https://archive.org/details/edensoutcastssto00matt|url-access = registration|last = Matteson|first = John

|author-link=John Matteson|year = 2007|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-393-33359-6|page=13}}

Deaths

  • February 19 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French engineer and memoirist (born 1733)
  • February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German satirist (born 1742){{cite book | last = Lichtenberg|first = Georg | title = Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books | publisher = State University of New York Press | location = Albany | year = 2012 | isbn = 9781438441986 | page=2}}
  • April 24 – William Seward, English man of letters (born 1747)
  • May 18 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French dramatist (born 1732){{cite book|author=Louis de Loménie|title=Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMO-ah_9T50C&pg=PA452|year=1857|publisher=Harper|pages=452}}
  • August 30 – Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Italian poet and revolutionary (executed, born 1751){{cite book | last = Davis | first = John | title = Naples and Napoleon: southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780-1860 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780191564529 | page=121}}
  • December 31 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (born 1723){{cite book|author1=Mueller von Asow|author2=Erich Hermann|author3=Mueller von Asow|title=Collected Correspondence and Papers|publisher=Barrie and Rockliff|year=1962|page=67}}

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