What happened in 1779?

Great Siege of Gibraltar

Wars & Conflicts · Gibraltar

1779–1783 siege

Siege of Savannah

Wars & Conflicts · Savannah

1779 siege of the American Revolutionary War

Anglo-Spanish War

Wars & Conflicts · English Channel

1779–1783 war

Battle of Stony Point

Wars & Conflicts · Stony Point

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Battle of Newtown

Wars & Conflicts · Chemung County

1779 battle

Battle of Baton Rouge

Wars & Conflicts · Baton Rouge

1779 Spanish victory in the American Revolutionary War

Capture of Grenada

Wars & Conflicts · Grenada

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Capture of Fort Bute

Wars & Conflicts · East Baton Rouge Parish

1779 battle

Battle of Brier Creek

Wars & Conflicts · Screven County

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Battle of Beaufort

Wars & Conflicts · Port Royal Island

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Battle of Minisink

Wars & Conflicts · Highland

1779 battle of the American Revolution

Battle of Kettle Creek

Wars & Conflicts

1779 American Revolutionary War battle

Battle of Paulus Hook

Wars & Conflicts · Paulus Hook

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Capture of Saint Vincent

Wars & Conflicts · Saint Vincent

1779 battle, part of the American Revolutionary War

Battle of Rukh

Wars & Conflicts · Rukhi

1779 armed conflict in Caucasia

Battle of Stono Ferry

Wars & Conflicts · Charleston County

1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Battle of San Fernando de Omoa

Wars & Conflicts · Omoa

1779 battle

Siege of Fort Vincennes

Wars & Conflicts · Vincennes

1779 battle in the United States war for independence

Capture of Río Hondo

Wars & Conflicts · Hondo River

1779 siege

First Battle of Tucson

Wars & Conflicts · Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Part of the Apache-Mexico Wars

Siege of Tellicherry

Wars & Conflicts · Thalassery

1779 siege

Battle of Chillicothe

Wars & Conflicts · Ohio

1779 battle

Burning of Fairfield

Wars & Conflicts · Fairfield

American Revolutionary War action

Battle of Van Creek

Wars & Conflicts · Elberton

1779 battle

Xhosa Wars

Wars & Conflicts · Southern Africa

Series of conflicts

Battle of Grenada

Wars & Conflicts · Grenada

Naval battle of the Anglo-French War and of the War of American Independence

Battle of Lake Pontchartrain

Wars & Conflicts · Lake Pontchartrain

1779 naval battle

Battle of Flamborough Head

Wars & Conflicts · North Sea

1779 naval battle

Battle of Martinique

Wars & Conflicts · Martinique

1779 action between three French and 15 British ships of the line

Affair of Fielding and Bylandt

Wars & Conflicts

1779 naval battle

Action of 11 November 1779

Wars & Conflicts

1779 naval battle

Capture of Cayo Cocina

Wars & Conflicts · St. George's Caye

1779 battle

Sullivan Expedition

Wars & Conflicts · New York

1779 campaign during American Revolutionary War

Penobscot Expedition

Wars & Conflicts · Penobscot Bay

Armada during the American Revolution

Tryon's raid

Wars & Conflicts

1779 British raid in Connecticut during American Revolutionary War

Franco-Dutch Invasion of Jersey

Wars & Conflicts · Jersey

1779 battle

Chesapeake Raid

Wars & Conflicts

1779 American Revolutionary War campaign

Treaty of Teschen

Politics & Government

1779 peace treaty ending the War of the Bavarian Succession

Treaty of Aynalıkavak

Politics & Government · Istanbul

1779 treaty between the Ottoman and Russian Empires

Treaty of Aranjuez

Politics & Government · Aranjuez

By which Spain joins the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain

James Cook died

People · Kealakekua Bay

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

Pehr Kalm died

People · Turku

Swedish scientist and priest (1716-1779)

Seraphim II of Constantinople died

People · Mhar Monastery

Died in Mhar Monastery. Patriarch of Constantinople.

David Garrick died

People · London

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

Charles Clerke died

People · Kamchatka Peninsula

British Royal Navy officer

Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa died

People · Mexico City

Spanish general (1717-1779)

Omai died

People · Huahine

Rai'iatean explorer

John Kay died

People · Paris

British inventor

Louis de Jaucourt died

People · Compiègne

French philosopher (1704-1779)

Johann Georg Sulzer died

People · Berlin

German philosopher (1720 - 1779)

Johannes Burman died

People · Amsterdam

Dutch botanist

Hilaire Rouelle died

People · Paris

French chemist

Jeremiah Dixon died

People · County Durham

English surveyor and astronomer (1733–1779)

John Winthrop died

People · Cambridge

Mathematician, physicist and astronomer and acting president of Harvard University in 1769 and 1773

Thomas-François Dalibard died

People · Paris

French physicist

Patrick d'Arcy died

People · Paris

Irish physicist (1725-1779)

Dom Bédos de Celles died

People · Paris

French organ builder (1709-1779)

Michael Adelbulner died

People · Altdorf bei Nürnberg

German mathematician

Raphael Levi Hannover died

People · Hanover

German astronomer and mathematician

Charles Le Roy died

People · Paris

French physician (1726-1779)

Jean-Jacques de Marguerie died

People · Grenada

French mathematician

Antoine Philippe de Marigny died

People · New Orleans

French explorer

Athanase de Mézières died

People · San Antonio

French explorer

Josse Boutmy died

People · Brussels metropolitan area

Belgian composer

Gottfried Heinrich Gloger died

People · Verdal

German pipe organ buider

Ernst Christoph Dressler died

People · Kassel

German composer and music theorist

Jan Punt died

People · Amsterdam

18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1711-1779)

Johann Adam died

People · Dresden

German composer and violist

Mademoiselle Dubois died

People · Paris

French actress

Hermann Anton Gelinek died

People · Milan

German musician

Thomas Moore born

People · Dublin

Born in Dublin. Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852).

Friedrich Carl von Savigny born

People · Frankfurt

Born in Frankfurt. German jurist (1779-1861).

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne born

People · London

Born in London. British politician (1779–1848).

Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia born

People · Tsarskoye Selo

Born in Tsarskoye Selo. Russian grand duke (1779–1831).

Adam Oehlenschläger born

People · Copenhagen

Born in Copenhagen. Danish poet and playwright (1779–1850).

Francis Scott Key born

People · Terra Rubra

Born in Terra Rubra. American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner (1779-1843).

Washington Allston born

People · Charleston

Born in Charleston. American artist (1779-1843).

Lorenz Oken born

People · Offenburg

Born in Offenburg. German naturalist (1779-1851).

Antoine-Henri Jomini born

People · Payerne

Born in Payerne. French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869).

Mountstuart Elphinstone born

People · Dumbarton

Born in Dumbarton. Governor of Bombay, Scottish historian (1779-1859).

Zebulon Pike born

People · Lamberton

Born in Lamberton. American military officer, explorer, and writer (1779-1813).

Adam Müller born

People · Berlin

Born in Berlin. German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state.

José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle born

People · Lima

Born in Lima. Peruvian politician (1779-1825).

Stephen Decatur born

People · Berlin

Born in Berlin. United States Navy officer.

Go-Momozono died

People · Kyoto

Died in Kyoto. Emperor of Japan (1758-1779).

Francis IV of Modena born

People · Milan

Born in Milan. Duke of Modena.

Abd al-Rahman of Morocco born

People · Fez

Born in Fez. Sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859.

Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Science & Technology

University in Moscow

Pedro de Elizalde Hospital

Science & Technology · Barracas

Hospital in Argentina

Coteau-du-Lac canal

Exploration & Discovery

historic site

Subotica Cathedral

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Subotica, Serbia

Kazdağlı Mosque

Religion & Belief Systems

Mosque in Safranbolu, Karabük, northwestern Turkey

Cathedral of Azogues

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Azogues, Ecuador

Church of the Nativity of Christ, Ponomaryovo

Religion & Belief Systems

Co-Cathedral of the Ascension of the Lord, Kecskemét

Religion & Belief Systems

Church

Magong Chenghuang Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Temple in Taiwan

Holy Cross church in Istebna

Religion & Belief Systems

Historic church in Istebna, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Spirito Santo Parish Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Rivera in the cnaton of Ticino, Switzerland

reformed church with Erlach chapel

Religion & Belief Systems · Schinznach-Dorf

Church building in Schinznach-Dorf in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland

Reformed Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Teufen in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland

Calumpit Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Roman Catholic parish church in Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines

Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Vittorio Veneto, Italy

Hsuchia Zhenlin Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Taoist Temple in Huxi Township, Penghu 885 Taiwan

Evangelical Church in Wahlen

Religion & Belief Systems · Wahlen

Simple hall church made of quarry stones with a nave closed on three sides in the south, a square domed roof turret rises in the north in Wahl, Kirtorf, Vogelsbergkreis, Hesse

Saint George chapel, Nyormusha

Religion & Belief Systems

St. Joseph

Religion & Belief Systems

Chapel in Wurmansau

Piikkiö vicarage

Religion & Belief Systems · Piikkiö

Clergy house in Kaarina, Finland

Santi Giacomo e Cristoforo Parish Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Bosco/Gurin in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland

Church of Saint Nicholas in Vsteselovo

Religion & Belief Systems

Church in Russia

Krucifix, Liberec, Perštýn

Religion & Belief Systems

Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Lenk in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Rectory (1778/79)

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Kappelen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Rectory on Franciszkański Square in Kowary

Religion & Belief Systems

Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Lotzwil in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Mosvodokanal

Economy & Trade · Moscow

Utility company providing water supply and wastewater treatment in Moscow, Russia

death of James Cook

Disasters & Pandemics · Hawaii

1779 killing of Captain James Cook in Hawaii

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Mother of God, Ternopil

Architecture & Engineering

Cathedral church of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Mother of God, Ternopil

Jabłonna Palace

Architecture & Engineering

Palace

Kovilthottam Church

Architecture & Engineering

Building in India

Castillo de San José

Architecture & Engineering

Cultural property in Arrecife, Spain

Church of the Pilgrim Virgin

Architecture & Engineering

Baroque church in Pontevedra, Spain

Saint Nicholas church in Ślesin, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Ślesin, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Armenian Apostolic Church, Moscow)

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Russia

Church of Saint Barbara, Kazan

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Kazan, Russia

Church of Saint Nicholas, Danylovo

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Danilovo, Ukraine

Sakkola Church

Architecture & Engineering

Former church in Sakkola, Finland

Stony Point Battlefield

Architecture & Engineering

battlefield in New York

Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite

Architecture & Engineering

National Historic Landmark in Chicago