January 1799
9 January 1799 – A “camel regiment” was created within the Army of Egypt.
11 January 1799 – Joachim Murat got the order to take hold of a village and kill all the men that he would not be able to capture.
15 January 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte once again urged Poussielgue to find funds.
18 January 1799 – He ordered General Verdier to execute the Sheik of a village under the pretext of having hidden Mamelukes and canons.
February 1799
10 February 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte and 13,000 men left Cairo for Syria [nowadays Israel].
25 February 1799 – Entry in Gaza.
March 1799
3 March 1799 – Arrival in front of Jaffa.
7 March 1799 – Capture of Jaffa followed by two days of looting and massacres. Execution of the 4,000 men of the garrison.
9 March 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to the sheiks of Jerusalem to ask them to choose between peace and war.
11 March 1799 – Bonaparte visited plague victims in Jaffa .
12 March 1799 – French Directory declared war to Austria.
19 March 1799 – Beginning of the siege of Acre [Akko].
April 1799
16 April 1799 – Battle of Mount Tabor, near the eponymous mountain in Galilea, main battle exploit of the Egyptian campaign.
21 April 1799 – Joséphine de Beauharnais acquired Malmaison .
May 1799
17 May 1799 – Lifting of the siege of Acre...
24 May 1799 –. ..and return to Jaffa.
26 May 1799 – Paul-François de Barras demanded the return of Napoleon Bonaparte.
27 May 1799 – Second visit to the plague victims.
28 May 1799 – Bonaparte ordered Jean-Baptiste Kléber to get the harvest burnt, the villages looted and the cattle requisitioned.
June 1799
14 June 1799 – Return to Cairo.
19 June 1799 – General Charles Dugua received the order to shoot down all the Moghrebins, Mekkins, etc., who had held arms against the French.
July 1799
20 July 1799 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord resigned.
25 July 1799 – Battle of Abukir (or Aboukir).
August 1799
17 August 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte declared to the Divan of Cairo that he was leaving for a tour in the Delta.
22 August 1799 – He informed General Jacques-François de Menou that he was leaving that very night for France.
October 1799
1st October 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Ajaccio , Corsica.
6 October 1799 – He left Ajaccio.
9 October 1799 – He landed in Saint-Raphaël.
16 October 1799 – Arrival at Paris.
17 October 1799 – Reception by the Directory.
23 October 1799 – Meeting with Jean Victor Marie Moreau and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès. Beginning of the preparations of the coup d'État. Lucien Bonaparte was elected to the presidency of the Council of Five Hundred.
November 1799
1st November 1799 – Decisive interview with Sieyès, at his brother Lucien Bonaparte's house.
7 November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte had dinner with Talleyrand.
8 November 1799 – Cambacérès had Bonaparte to dinner.
9 November 1799 – Coup d'État of 18 Brumaire.
10 November 1799 – At Saint-Cloud, grenadiers under the command of Joachim Murat marched into the Orangerie and dispersed the Council of Five Hundred .
A group of members of the Council enacted that there was no Directory any longer. Sixty-one deputies of the Council deposed of their mandate. An executive Consular Commission, made up of Bonaparte, Sieyès and Roger-Ducos, was named. Bonaparte made a proclamation to the country.
11 November 1799 – First meeting of the three consuls.
13 November 1799 – Repeal of the law allowing taking hostages among the family of emigrant and the erstwhile nobles.
15 November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte settled in at the Palais du Petit Luxembourg.
16 November 1799 – The Minister of the Police got the play Les Mariniers de Saint-Cloud removed from the programme.
19 November 1799 – The Minister of the Police decided that he would no longer tolerate anything in shows which could divide people's minds.
20 November 1799 – The Treasury had only 167,000 Francs left in cash.
22 November 1799 – Talleyrand became the Minister of External Affairs once again.
28 November 1799 – Creation of the Consular guard.
29 November 1799 – The deportation of sworn priests was cancelled.
December 1799
1st December 1799 – Songs on the events related to the Brumaire events and harmful with respect to the national representation were banned.
2 December 1799 – A raid dispatched three hundred prostitutes to the prison or the hospital.
4 December 1799 – Pierre Daunou, a former moderate conventional, was given the charge of drawing up a draft constitution.
5 December 1799 – Organization of a Tolerance festival in the former church Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois.
12 December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte got Daunou's draft constitution read to him, and got it adopted immediately.
14 December 1799 – Signing of an armistice with the Vendéens.
15 December 1799 – The Constitution of the year VIII was proclaimed.
16 December 1799 – A law organized the popular consultation to which the new constitution would be submitted: citizens would have to sign registers "for" or "against" deposited with notaries, judges, and in the communes. Bonaparte had his consular dress presented to him; the model was designed by Jacques-Louis David.
18 December 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte asked Talleyrand to impose tax on the dealers of Genoa.
22 December 1799 – Installation of the Council of State. Sieyès received a domain worth 480,000 Francs, by way of a national reward.
24 December 1799 – Bonaparte became the First consul .
25 December 1799 – Bonaparte proclaimed his intention of rendering the Republic dear to its citizens, respectable to foreigners, formidable to enemies
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27 December 1799 – Installation of the Senate.
28 December 1799 – Amnesty was granted to the Vendée insurgents who would surrender their arms within ten days. Opening of churches on Sundays was authorized. Oath was no longer demanded of clergymen.
30 December 1799 – An order was given to render funeral honours to Pope Pius VI, who had died four months earlier (August 29th, 1799) in Valence, Drôme.