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...

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...

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...

Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National...

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...

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...

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...

1779 Paraná, provisional designation 1950 LZ, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid...

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...

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...

John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 – May 3, 1779) was an American mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Colonel Thomas Moody ADC JP Kt. (1779 – 1849) was a British geopolitical expert to the Colonial Office; Commander of the Royal Engineers; Home Secretary...

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'...

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...

- Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and Egyptologist (d. 1823) 1779: May 29 - John Disney, English barrister, antiquarian and archaeological...

Thomas or Tom Fletcher may refer to: Thomas Fletcher (Kentucky politician) (1779–?), U.S. Representative from Kentucky Thomas Fletcher (Arkansas politician)...

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...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1779. April 6 – The premiėre of Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang Goethe...

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...

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...

Andrew Pickens Jr. (December 13, 1779 – June 24, 1838) was an American soldier and politician. He served as the 46th Governor of South Carolina from 1816...