* 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau ( d. 1769 )

* 1769 – Napoleon, Corsican-French military officer and political leader ( d. 1821 )

* 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist ( d. 1832 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ), Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman

* 1769 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa leader ( b. 1720 )

# Napoléon ( I ) Bonaparte ( 1769 – 1821 ) Emperor

( 1765 – 1769 ).

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier ( b. 1685 )

* 1769 – Sino-Burmese War ( 1765 – 1769 ) ends with an uneasy truce.

* 1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev.

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

* 1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general ( d. 1862 )

* 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist ( d. 1844 )

* 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ( d. 1769 )

* 1695 – François de Chevert, French general ( d. 1769 )

* 1769 – Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin ( d. 1802 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

The obsession of the undiscovered continent culminated in the brain of Alexander Dalrymple, the brilliant and erratic hydrographer who was nominated by the Royal Society to command the Transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti in 1769.

Sir Joseph Banks and others saw the value of breadfruit as a highly productive food in 1769, when stationed in Tahiti as part of the Endeavour expedition commanded by Captain James Cook.

On July 14, 1769 Gálvez sent the expedition of Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolà to found a mission at San Diego and presidio at Monterey, respectively.

Father Juan Crespí, as a member of the Portolà expedition of 1769, authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population in the region that today makes up Orange County, after the group passed through on July 22 of that year.

Early in the year 1769, he accompanied Governor Gaspar de Portolà on his expedition to Alta California.

The Portolà land expedition arrived at the site of present-day San Diego on June 29, 1769, where it established the Presidio of San Diego.

On May 1, 1769, Boone began a two-year hunting expedition in Kentucky.

Although Spanish ships associated with the Manila Galleon trade probably contacted the Chumash intermittently during this " protohistoric " period, the Spanish first colonized Santa Barbara County in AD 1769, when the DeAnza expedition explored the area and laid plans to establish a series of missions and presidios ( forts ).

Some scholars have suggested that Chumash population may have declined substantially during a " protohistoric " period ( 1542 – 1769 CE ) when intermittent contacts with the crews of Spanish ships — including those of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's expedition who wintered in the Santa Barbara Channel in AD 1542-43 — brought disease and death.

Other committees on which he served included the committee of papers, which chose the papers for publication in the Philosophical Transactions, and the committees for the transit of Venus ( 1769 ), for the gravitational attraction of mountains ( 1774 ), and for the scientific instructions for Constantine Phipps ’ s expedition ( 1773 ) in search of the North Pole and the Northwest Passage.

The first Europeans visited the San Gabriel Valley, including Duarte, during a 1769 expedition from San Diego to Monterey Bay commanded by Don Gaspar de Portolà.

After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junípero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).

After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).

After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).

A land expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá and accompanied by missionary Padre Junipero Serra visited in 1769, but did not stay.

Explorer Daniel Boone made use of the same gap on an expedition to what is now Kentucky in 1769, and today part of the Daniel Boone Heritage Trail — which follows Boone's route — passes through Mountain City.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

The vaqueros of the Americas were the horsemen and cattle herders of Spanish Mexico, who first came to California with the Jesuit priest Eusebio Kino in 1687, and later with expeditions in 1769 and the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition in 1774.

Both actors played Spanish expedition leaders on a quest that resulted in the 1769 founding of San Diego, California.

In geography he found a field hardly touched since Samuel Bochart, in whose footsteps he followed in the Spicilegium geographiae hebraeorum exterae post Bochartum ( 1769 – 1780 ); and to his impulse we owe the famous Royal Danish expedition to Arabia Felix ( Yemen ) conducted by Carsten Niebuhr and Peter Forsskål.