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1779 (
MDCCLXXIX ) was a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1779th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 779th year of the
2nd millennium , the 79th year of the
18th century , and the 10th and last year of the
1770s decade. As of the start of 1779, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 11
January 22 –
American Revolutionary War –
Claudius Smith is hanged at
Goshen ,
Orange County, New York for supposed acts of terrorism upon the people of the surrounding communities.
January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the
North Carolina General Assembly abolishes
Bute County ,
North Carolina (established
1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion
Warren County (for Revolutionary War hero
Joseph Warren ), the southern portion
Franklin County (for
Benjamin Franklin ). The General Assembly also establishes
Warrenton (also named for Joseph Warren) to be the seat of Warren County, and
Louisburg (named for
Louis XVI of France ) to be the seat of Franklin County.
February 12 – Lieutenant Colonel
Francisco Bouligny arrives with
Malagueño colonists at
Bayou Teche , to establish the city of
New Iberia, Louisiana .
February 14 – Captain
James Cook is killed on the
Sandwich Islands , on his third voyage.
March 1 –
Capture and sack of Vientiane by Siamese forces.
March 10 – The
Treaty of Aynalıkavak is signed between
Ottoman Turkey and the
Russian Empire , regarding the
Crimean Khanate .
April–June
July–September
July 16
July 20 –
Tekle Giyorgis I begins the first of his five reigns as
Emperor of Ethiopia .
July 22 –
Battle of Minisink : The Goshen Militia is destroyed by
Joseph Brant 's forces.
July 24 –
American Revolutionary War – American forces, led by Commodore
Dudley Saltonstall , launch the
Penobscot Expedition in what is now
Castine , Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history (until
Pearl Harbor ).
July – The
Great Siege of Gibraltar (fourteenth and last military siege) begins. This is an action by French and Spanish forces to wrest control of
Gibraltar from the established British garrison. The garrison, led by
George Augustus Eliott (later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar), survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies.
September
September 14 –
15 –
American Revolutionary War –
Little Beard's Town , a loyalist stronghold, is burnt by the
Sullivan Expedition .
September 23 –
American Revolutionary War –
Battle of Flamborough Head – The American ship
Bonhomme Richard , commanded by
John Paul Jones , engages the British ship
HMS Serapis . The Bonhomme Richard sinks, but the Americans board the Serapis and other vessels, and are victorious.
September 28 –
Samuel Huntington is elected as the seventh
President of the Continental Congress .
[3]
October–December
Date unknown
Industrial Revolution in England:
A joint Spanish-Portuguese survey of the
Amazon basin begins to determine the boundary between the colonial possessions in South America; it continues until
1795 .
Births
Stephen Decatur
Francis Scott Key
January 5 –
Stephen Decatur , American naval officer (d.
1820 )
January 18 –
Peter Mark Roget , British lexicographer (d.
1869 )
February 1 –
Nikolaus von Krufft , Austrian composer and civil servant (d.
1818 )
March 6 –
Antoine-Henri Jomini , French general (d.
1869 )
March 15 –
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1848 )
March 21 –
José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle , Peruvian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Peru (d. 1825)
[6]
May 28 –
Thomas Moore , Irish poet (d.
1852 )
June 20 –
Dorothy Ann Thrupp , British psalmist, hymnwriter, translator (d.
1847 )
July 8 –
Giorgio Pullicino , Maltese painter and architect (d.
1851 )
August 1 –
Francis Scott Key , American lawyer, lyricist (d.
1843 )
August 8 –
Benjamin Silliman , American chemist, educator and abolitionist (d.
1864 )
August 20 –
Jöns Jacob Berzelius , Swedish chemist (d.
1848 )
August 29 –
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , French painter (d.
1867 )
September 8 –
Mustafa IV ,
sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d.
1808 )
September 18 –
Joseph Story ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1845 )
November 14 –
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger , Danish poet (d.
1850 )
December 12 –
Madeleine Sophie Barat , French Catholic saint, founder of the
Society of the Sacred Heart (d.
1865 )
December 24 –
George Washington Lafayette
date unknown –
Giacomo Beltrami , Italian explorer (d.
1855 )
Deaths
James Cook
Kazimierz Pułaski
January 3 –
Claude Bourgelat , French veterinary surgeon (b.
1712 )
January 20 –
David Garrick , English actor (b.
1717 )
January 22 –
Jeremiah Dixon , English surveyor, astronomer (b.
1733 )
February 7 –
William Boyce , English composer (b.
1711 )
February 14 –
James Cook , British naval captain and explorer (b.
1728 )
February 24 –
Paul Daniel Longolius , German encyclopedist (b.
1704 )
April 7 –
Martha Ray (b.
1742 ), British singer and mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich (murdered) (b.
1742 )
April 9 –
Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa , Spanish military officer (b.
1717 )
April 24 –
Eleazar Wheelock , American founder of Dartmouth College (b.
1711 )
May 1 –
Sarah Clayton , English industrialist (b.
1712 )
May 3 –
John Winthrop , American astronomer (b.
1714 )
June 7 –
William Warburton , English critic, Bishop of Gloucester (b.
1698 )
June 10 –
Jane Gomeldon , English writer, poet and adventurer (b.
1720 )
June 16 –
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet , Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (b.
1712 )
June 23 – Ras
Mikael Sehul , Enderase of
Ethiopia (b.
1692 )
June 28 –
Martha Daniell Logan , American botanist (b.
1704 )
June 29 –
Anton Raphael Mengs , German-Bohemian painter (b.
1728 )
July 21 –
Caleb Fleming , English dissenting minister, polemicist (b.
1698 )
August 26 –
Henrika Juliana von Liewen , Swedish political salonnière (b.
1709 )
September 12 –
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , English politician (b.
1711 )
October 11 –
Kazimierz Pułaski , veteran commander of Polish, Russian, and American troops (b.
1745 )
November 16 –
Pehr Kalm , Finnish explorer and naturalist (b.
1716 )
December 6 –
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , French painter (b.
1699 )
December 8 –
Nathan Alcock , English physician (b.
1707 )
December 16 –
Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (b.
1758 )
December 17 –
Giuseppe Carcani , Italian composer (b.
1703 )
December 23 –
Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol , British admiral and politician (b.
1724 )
unknown date
References
^ Robert W. Smith, Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775-1815 (Potomac Books, 2012)
^ William Nester, The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic (Potomac Books, 2011) p53
^ Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909 , ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p166
^
"Icons, a portrait of England 1750–1800" . Archived from
the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2007 .
^
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b Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
333–334 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Benavides Loredo, Alfonso (1918).
Bosquejo sobre la evolución política y jurídica de la época Republicana del Perú (in Spanish). Lima: P. Acevedo. p. 227.
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