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1779 (MDCCLXXIX ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Tuesday of theJulian calendar , the 1779th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 79th year of the18th century , and the 10th and last year of the1770s 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.
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January 11 British troops surrender to theMarathas inWadgaon , India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since1773 . January 22 –American Revolutionary War –Claudius Smith is hanged atGoshen ,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, theNorth Carolina General Assembly abolishesBute County ,North Carolina (established1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portionWarren County (for Revolutionary War heroJoseph Warren ), the southern portionFranklin County (forBenjamin Franklin ). The General Assembly also establishesWarrenton (also named for Joseph Warren) to be the seat of Warren County, andLouisburg (named forLouis XVI of France) to be the seat of Franklin County.February 12 – Lieutenant ColonelFrancisco Bouligny arrives withMalagueño colonists atBayou Teche , to establish the city ofNew Iberia, Louisiana .February 14 – CaptainJames Cook is killed on theSandwich Islands , on his third voyage.March 1 –Capture and sack of Vientiane by Siamese forces.March 10 – TheTreaty of Aynalıkavak is signed betweenOttoman Turkey and theRussian Empire , regarding theCrimean Khanate .July 16 – TheGreat Siege of Gibraltar begins. This is an action by French and Spanish forces to wrest control ofGibraltar from the established British garrison. The garrison, led byGeorge Augustus Eliott (later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar), survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies.July 16 July 20 –Tekle Giyorgis I begins the first of his five reigns asEmperor of Ethiopia .July 22 –Battle of Minisink : The Goshen Militia is destroyed byJoseph Brant 's forces.July 24 –American Revolutionary War – American forces, led by CommodoreDudley Saltonstall , launch thePenobscot Expedition in what is nowCastine , Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history, until surpassed by the attack onPearl Harbor in 1941.August 17 –Action of 17 August 1779 : The 64-gun British warshipHMSArdent is captured by France in theEnglish Channel off ofPlymouth after an ineffective attempt by the British captain to properly aim its cannons at the French frigateJunon August 23 –Martín de Mayorga , Captain-General of Guatemala, becomes the SpanishViceroy of New Spain after the death ofAntonio María de Bucareli .September 14 –15 –American Revolutionary War –Little Beard's Town , a loyalist stronghold, is burnt by theSullivan Expedition .September 21 –Battle of Baton Rouge – Spanish troops underBernardo de Gálvez capture the city from the British.September 23 –American Revolutionary War –Battle of Flamborough Head – The American shipBonhomme Richard John Paul Jones , engages the British shipHMS Serapis . TheBonhomme Richard sinks, but the Americans board theSerapis and other vessels, and are victorious.September 28 –Samuel Huntington is elected as the seventhPresident of the Continental Congress .[ 3] Industrial Revolution in England:A joint Spanish-Portuguese survey of theAmazon basin begins to determine the boundary between the colonial possessions in South America; it continues until1795 .
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 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 theSociety of the Sacred Heart (d.1865 )December 24 –George Washington Lafayette date unknown –Giacomo Beltrami , Italian explorer (d.1855 )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 – RasMikael Sehul , Enderase ofEthiopia (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 )^ 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 fromthe original on August 17, 2007. RetrievedAugust 27, 2007 .^a b Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History 333–334 .ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ Benavides Loredo, Alfonso (1918).Bosquejo sobre la evolución política y jurídica de la época Republicana del Perú 
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