1779

1779 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1779; MDCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2532
Armenian calendar	1228; ԹՎ ՌՄԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6529
Balinese saka calendar	1700–1701
Bengali calendar	1186
Berber calendar	2729
British Regnal year	19 Geo. 3 – 20 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2323
Burmese calendar	1141
Byzantine calendar	7287–7288
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog); 4475 or 4415; — to —; 己亥年 (Earth Pig); 4476 or 4416
Coptic calendar	1495–1496
Discordian calendar	2945
Ethiopian calendar	1771–1772
Hebrew calendar	5539–5540
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1835–1836
- Shaka Samvat	1700–1701
- Kali Yuga	4879–4880
Holocene calendar	11779
Igbo calendar	779–780
Iranian calendar	1157–1158
Islamic calendar	1192–1193
Japanese calendar	An'ei 8; (安永８年)
Javanese calendar	1704–1705
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4112
Minguo calendar	133 before ROC ; 民前133年
Nanakshahi calendar	311
Thai solar calendar	2321–2322
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年; (male Earth-Dog); 1905 or 1524 or 752; — to —; 阴土猪年; (female Earth-Pig); 1906 or 1525 or 753

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ;
Decades:	1750s ; 1760s ; 1770s ; 1780s ; 1790s ;
Years:	1776 ; 1777 ; 1778 ; 1779 ; 1780 ; 1781 ; 1782 ;

Last updated March 02, 2019

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.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Roman numerals, as used today, employ seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value, as follows:

A common year is a calendar year with 365 days, as distinguished from a leap year, which has 366. More generally, a common year is one without intercalation. The Gregorian calendar,, employs both common years and leap years to keep the calendar aligned with the tropical year, which does not contain an exact number of days.

A common year starting on Friday is any non-leap year that begins on Friday, 1 January, and ends on Friday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is C. The most recent year of such kind was 2010 and the next one will be 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, or, likewise, 2011 and 2022 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 2100, will also be a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar. See below for more. Any common year that starts on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; The only Friday the 13th in this common year occurs in August. Leap years starting on Thursday share this characteristic, but also have another one in February.

Events

January–March

January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773.
January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
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 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 10 – The Treaty of Aynalıkavak is signed between Ottoman Turkey and the Russian Empire, regarding the Crimean Khanate.

January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 354 days remaining until the end of the year.

1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1773rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 773rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1773, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Ningthou Ching-Thang Khomba (1748–1799) was a Meitei monarch of the 18th century CE. The inventor of the Ras Lila dance, he is a legendary figure in Manipur, and much of his actions as King had been mythologized. He is also credited with spreading Vaishnavism in Manipur State after his grandfather Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion and for creating a unified Manipur.

April–June

April 12 – Spain and France secretly sign the Convention of Aranjuez, with Spain joining an alliance against Great Britain in return for France's pledge to recover all Spanish territory lost to the British.^[1]
May 13 – War of the 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 the Bavarian territory (the Innviertel), and relinquishes the rest.
June 1 – American Revolutionary War – Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance, in his treatment of government property.
June 16 – American Revolutionary War – In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on Britain.
June 21 – King Charles III of Spain issues a declaration of war against Great Britain. ^[2]

April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of the year.

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

July–September

July 16 – American Revolutionary War – United States forces, led by General Anthony Wayne, capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
July 16 – Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation issued in order to regulate organization of Eastern Orthodox Church in Habsburg Monarchy.
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
- Battle of Baton Rouge – Spanish troops under Bernardo de Gálvez capture the city from the British.
- The Great Siege of Gibraltar starts, the longest siege endured by the British Armed Forces.
The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Baton Rouge was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into British West Florida.
The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American War of Independence.
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from Latin: sedere, lit. 'to sit'. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position. Consequently, an opportunity for negotiation between combatants is not uncommon, as proximity and fluctuating advantage can encourage diplomacy. The art of conducting and resisting sieges is called siege warfare, siegecraft, or poliorcetics.
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]

July 16 is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year.

American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, which won independence as the United States of America

The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America.

Anthony Wayne was a United States Army officer and statesman. He adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him promotion to brigadier general and the nickname Mad Anthony. He served as the Senior Officer of the Army and led the Legion of the United States.

October–December

October 4 – The Fort Wilson Riot against James Wilson and others in Philadelphia takes place.
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 13 – Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais marries Joséphine Tascher.
December 22 – American Revolutionary War – Capture of Savannah: British forces under Archibald Campbell take the city of Savannah, Georgia.
December 25 – Fort Nashborough (later to become Nashville, Tennessee) is founded by James Robertson.
December 31 – Affair of Fielding and Bylandt: Following a brief naval engagement between the British and Dutch off the Isle of Wight, the Dutch merchantmen and naval vessels are captured and taken to Portsmouth, England.

October 4 is the 277th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year.

James Wilson one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

James Wilson was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, where he represented Pennsylvania, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution. A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Philadelphia, sometimes known colloquially as Philly, is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863. Since 1854, the city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017. Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural anchor of the greater Delaware Valley, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis. The Delaware Valley's population of 7.2 million ranks it as the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

Date unknown

Industrial Revolution in England:
- The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire, the world's first bridge built entirely of cast iron.^[4] It will open to traffic on January 1, 1781.^[5]
- The spinning mule is perfected by Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton.^[5]
- Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine , now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service (May)).
The city of Tampere, Finland, is founded.
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 KN-2779.jpg — Stephen Decatur

Francis Scott Key Key-Francis-Scott-LOC.jpg — 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)
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)
date unknown
- Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (d. 1855)

Deaths

James Cook Captainjamescookportrait.jpg — James Cook

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 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
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 salonniére (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)

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Giuseppe Bonici, Maltese architect, military engineer (b. 1707)
Johann Joseph Gassner, German priest (b. 1727)

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Events from the year 1779 in Great Britain.

Events from the year 1779 in the United States.

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 2007-08-27.
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