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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1779. 1779 (MDCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    It was the largest battle in the war by number of combatants. On 16 June 1779, Spain entered the war on the side of France and as co-belligerents of the...
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    The 1770s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1779 BC to December 31, 1770 BC. Investiture of Zimri-Lim, a painting of Zimri-Lim receiving the ring...
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  • Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National...
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    Events from the year 1779 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of Nova Scotia: Sir Richard Hughes...
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    and further shipments of blankets were being collected at Bilbao. By June 1779 the Spanish had finalized their preparations for war. The British cause seemed...
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  • The Armada of 1779 was a combined Franco-Spanish naval enterprise intended to divert British military assets, primarily of the Royal Navy, from other war...
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  • New Jersey, on 6 June 1779. The British renamed her Restoration. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in North America in 1779, and named HMS Loyalist...
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    Grenada under Lamotte-Picquet. In the Battle of Martinique, on 18 December 1779, Annibal single-handedly engaged seven ships of the line to protect a convoy...
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  • 1779 Paraná, provisional designation 1950 LZ, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid...
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    John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 – May 3, 1779) was an American mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics...
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    He is credited with the discovery of Bode's Galaxy (M81). Comet Bode (C/1779 A1) is named after him; its orbit was calculated by Erik Prosperin. Asteroid...
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    Matilda: Matilda (1790 ship) was a ship built in France and launched in 1779. She first appears in British records in 1790 as a whaling ship and transported...
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  • Colonel Thomas Moody ADC JP Kt. (1779 – 1849) was a British geopolitical expert to the Colonial Office; Commander of the Royal Engineers; Home Secretary...
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  • The Battle of Rukh (Georgian: რუხის ბრძოლა) was fought in 1779 between the combined armies of the Kingdom of Imereti, and the Principalities of Mingrelia...
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    the conflict onto a global stage. Spain did not enter into the war until 1779, as an ally of France pursuant to the secret Treaty of Aranjuez. Vergennes'...
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  • The year 1779 in science and technology involved some significant events. March 23 – Edward Pigott discovers the Black Eye Galaxy (M64). May 5 – The spiral...
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    1770s (redirect from 1770-1779)
    Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1770, and ended on December 31, 1779. A period full of discoveries, breakthroughs happened in all walks of life...
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    both the French Navy and the Royal Navy. She was launched by the French in 1779. The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as...
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    María Amalia, Infanta of Spain (9 January 1779 in Madrid – 22 July 1798 in Madrid), was a Spanish princess. She was a daughter of King Charles IV of Spain...
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  • year 1779 in France. Monarch: Louis XVI 12 April - Treaty of Aranjuez (1779) June–September - Armada of 1779 2-4 July - Capture of Grenada (1779) 6 July...
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    merchants from selling their goods. As a result, the Persians held Basra until 1779 when the Ottomans, under Sulayman Agha, retook the city, following Karim...
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  • - Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and Egyptologist (d. 1823) 1779: May 29 - John Disney, English barrister, antiquarian and archaeological...
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  • Thomas or Tom Fletcher may refer to: Thomas Fletcher (Kentucky politician) (1779–?), U.S. Representative from Kentucky Thomas Fletcher (Arkansas politician)...
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    Brent built her at Greenland South Dockyard, Rotherhithe and launched her in 1779. She was armed with 44 guns (twenty 18-pounders, twenty 9-pounders, and four...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1779. April 6 – The premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1779)
    agreement with the rebels, followed by a Treaty of Alliance in February 1778. In 1779, the Sullivan Expedition undertook a scorched earth campaign against the...
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    James Cook (category 1779 deaths)
    October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean...
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  • commissioned that December at Jamaica under Commander Christopher Parker. In May 1779, Captain Charles Nugent replaced Parker, who had been promoted to post captain...
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    Cristina of Naples and Sicily (Maria Cristina Amelia Teresa; 17 January 1779 – 11 March 1849) was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later Queen of Sardinia...
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