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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1769. 1769 (MDCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • 1760s BC (redirect from 1769 BC)
    The 1760s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1769 BC to December 31, 1760 BC. 1766 BC: The Shang dynasty in China conquers the Xia dynasty. Hammurabi...
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    Events from the year 1769 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton Governor of Nova Scotia: Michael Francklin Commodore-Governor...
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    by his son, Ignacio Mullán. The ship was launched in March 1769 and completed in August 1769 as a 116-gun three-decker. She was considerably larger than...
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  • The year 1769 in architecture involved some significant events. Second Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm in Sweden, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz...
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  • composer (died 1827) July 29 – Louis-Benoît Picard, librettist and writer (died 1769) August 14 Richard Barry, composer and English rake (died 1793) Friedrich...
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    under the Qianlong Emperor launched four invasions of Burma between 1765 and 1769, which were considered one of his Ten Great Campaigns. Nonetheless, the war...
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    its rank from the Sun, not on the parallax effect as used by the 1761 and 1769 and following experiments.[citation needed] In 1663, the Scottish mathematician...
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  • during his observation of a solar eclipse, and then Joseph Banks during the 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti. After which, Tupaia "attached himself...
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    Thomas Hope (30 August 1769 – 2 February 1831) was a Dutch-British interior and Regency designer, traveler, author, philosopher, art collector, and partner...
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    1760s (redirect from 1760-1769)
    Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1760, and ended on December 31, 1769. Marked by great upheavals on culture, technology, and diplomacy, the 1760s...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1769. January 21 – The first of the Letters of Junius criticising the government...
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    Toulon 1    Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military...
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  • This is a list of notable events from the year 1769 in Russia. Monarch – Catherine II Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russian forces take the Ottoman fortress...
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  • Russian Theatre was a historic theatre in Moscow in Russia, active in 1766–1769. It was the second public theater in the city of Moscow after the Maiden...
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    book in history, almost all such printings presenting the standard text of 1769, and nearly always omitting the books of the Apocrypha. Today the unqualified...
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    C/1769 P1 (Messier) is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye at its last apparition in 1769. The comet is classified as a great comet...
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  • Henry Bingham was an Irish politician. Bingham was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1750 to 1768 as a Member...
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  • Gorges Lowther (1768 – 23 February 1854) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He represented Ratoath in the Irish House of Commons from 1790 to 1798. He...
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    Teochew merchant-pirates of the eastern Siamese shores of the Gulf of Siam. In 1769 or 1770, Mạc Thiên Tứ sent Cantonese forces from Hà Tiên to attack Chanthaburi...
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  • James Agar was an Irish politician. He was a litigious and hot-tempered man, whose bitter feud with a rival political faction led to his being killed in...
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  • The year 1769 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. March 4 – French astronomer Charles Messier first records the Orion...
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    for Mission Vieja was found in the expedition of Portolá in the summer of 1769. Gaspar de Portolá, Miguel Costansó and Father Juan Crespí recorded the expedition...
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  • Orang Kaya Di-Gadong Seri Lela Awang Aliwaddin in 1769. The mission did not arrive in Manila until 1769 because the expedition's preparations took so long...
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    December 2019. Private Act, Kingston upon Thames (Surrey) Vicarage Division Act 1769 (9 Geo. 3. c. 65) Kew and Petersham Vicarage Acts 1891 Local Act, 12 & 13...
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  • Events from the year 1769 in Austria Monarch – Maria Theresa Monarch – Joseph II The education under the Imperial Austria reformed the curriculum and somewhat...
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    The siege of Mazagan of 1769 was the last engagement between Morocco and the Portuguese in Mazagan (El Jadida). The Moroccan army under Sultan Mohammed...
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  • Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle"...
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  • Commissioners were a local government body, created in Birmingham, England in 1769, with powers to manage matters such as streets, markets, and policing. Subsequent...
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    the political satire Demagogue. In 1767 he was purser of the Swiftsure. In 1769 he published An Universal Dictionary of the Marine. William Falconer was...
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