* 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

# 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 ).

* William Smith ( judge ) ( 1697 – 1769 ), father of John Smith, Doctor Thomas Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Chief Justice William Smith

The Odawa rebel leader Chief Pontiac was assassinated by other Indians in Cahokia on April 20, 1769.

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

* Robert Mylne Chief Engineer, 1769 – 1810

He also served as the first Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of the Superior Court, during the American Revolution ( 1769 – 1784 ).

On April 20, 1769, an Illinois Confederation warrior assassinated Chief Pontiac while he was on a diplomatic mission in Cahokia.

On April 20, 1769, the great Indian leader Chief Pontiac was murdered in Cahokia by a chief of the Peoria.

On April 20, 1769, an Illinois Confederation warrior assassinated Chief Pontiac while he was on a diplomatic mission in Cahokia.

In 1769, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield explained as follows:

Pontiac or Obwandiyag ( c. 1720 – April 20, 1769 ) was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion ( 1763 – 1766 ), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War.

Returning to the Illinois Country, Pontiac was murdered on April 20, 1769, at the French village of Cahokia ( nearly opposite St. Louis, Missouri ) by a Peoria Indian, perhaps in retaliation for an earlier attack by Pontiac.

When a Peoria warrior murdered the Ottawa war chief Pontiac in 1769, the northern tribes retaliated against the Illiniwek.

In 1769, a Peoria warrior killed Pontiac, which brought the wrath of the Great Lakes tribes against the Kaskaskia and other Illinois tribes.

Aware that England and France had ended both their European and American wars, Pontiac tried to start a second uprising, later counseled peace, and was killed in 1769 in Illinois by a Peoria Indian who was probably an assassin hired by the English.

Napoleon ( 1769 – 1821 ) also known as Napoleon Bonaparte or Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor.

** Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1769 )

Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.

The gang's leader, David Hartley, or King David as he was known, was found guilty of the 1769 murder of excise official William Dighton and was hanged at the York Tyburn on 28 April 1770.

Hood then turned to the occupation of Corsica, which he had been invited to take in the name of the King of Britain by Pasquale Paoli, who had been leader of the Corsican Republic before it was subjugated by the French in 1769.

Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet ( 1713 – 11 September 1769 ) was a British colonial leader who served as governor of Jamaica and as royal Governor of Province of New York from 1765 to 1769.

The first European explorers came into the Chatsworth area on August 5, 1769, led by the Spanish military leader Gaspar de Portolà.

Blanchette settled there in 1769 under the authority of the Spanish governor of Upper Louisiana, and served as its civil and military leader until his death in 1793.

One of its inhabitants, Semen Kostin, was a leader of the Kizhi Uprising of the 1769.

* Pârvu Cantacuzino, Ban of Oltenia, the leader of an anti-Ottoman rebellion in 1769

One of the graves within is that of Moseh Tobi buried here in 1769, he was considered an elder leader.

Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 ) was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on modern European history.

* Moshe Tobi, considered an elder leader of Baghadadi Jew community in India ( Died in 1769 Surat )