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Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power during the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
Incumbents
- Until 10 November – the French Directory – five Directors[1]
- From 10 November – the French Consulate – three consuls[2]
Events
- 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
Births

 Oscar I of Sweden was born in Paris.
- 20 May – Honoré de Balzac, novelist and playwright (died 1850)
- 8 July – Oscar I of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1859)[3]
- 9 July – Théophile Tilmant, violinist (died 1878)
Deaths

Self portrait, Guillaume Voiriot.
- 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)
- 27 June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)[4]
- 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)
See also
References
- ↑ "Coup of 18–19 Brumaire | French history [1799] | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ↑ "Consulate | French history | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ↑ Carlquist, G (1924). "Oskar I". In Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 18 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 647–649. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ Hopkins Porter, Cecelia (2014). Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-25208-009-8.
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