1779
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1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- The Iron Bridge is completed across the River Severn in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed.
- Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine, now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service.
- The city of Tampere is founded in Finland.
January
- January 9 - British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all terrorities acquired since 1773.
- 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) and the southern portion Franklin County (for Benjamin Franklin). The General Assembly also establishes Warrenton (also named for Joseph Warren) to be the county seat of Warren County and Louisburg (named for Louis XVI of France) to be the county seat of Franklin County.
February
March
April
May
- May 13 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives a part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
June
- June 1 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
July
- July 16 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
- July 22 - Goshen Militia destroyed by Joseph Brant's forces at the Battle of Minisink.
- July 24 - American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launched the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history until Pearl Harbor.
August
September
October
November
- November 2 - The North Carolina General Assembly carves a new county from Dobbs County, North Carolina and names it Wayne County in honor of United States General Anthony Wayne.
December
- December 13 - Marriage of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais to Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie.
- December 25 - Fort Nashborough, later to become Nashville, Tennessee, founded by James Robertson.
Births
- January 5 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
- January 18 - Peter Roget, Scottish lexicographer (d. 1869)
- March 6 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French eneral (d. 1869)
- March 15 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
- May 28 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
- August 1 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
- August 20 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
- November 14 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
- Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (d. 1855)
Deaths
- January 3 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
- January 20 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
- January 22 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and 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 encylopedist (b. 1704)
- April 24 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
- May 3 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
- June 7 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
- September 12 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
- November 16 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
- December 6 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
- December 17 - Giuseppe Carcani, Italian composer (b. ?1703)
- December 23 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
- Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1758)
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