* 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 )

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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 ).

* Father Junípero Serra ( 1769 – 1784 )

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.

It wasn't until 1769 when the area known as Northridge was descriptively first reported by Father Juan Crespi, the prolific diarist who accompanied the exploration party of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà on its arduous trek through California, including the Sepulveda Pass leading to the San Fernando Valley.

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 ).

Father Junípero Serra, founded the first missions in Spanish upper Las Californias, starting with Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769.

Eager to press on to Monterey Bay, Portolà and his expedition, consisting of Father Juan Crespí, sixty-three leather-jacket soldiers and a hundred mules loaded down with provisions, headed north on July 14, 1769.

The first Christian service of any sort conducted in New Zealand occurred when Father Paul-Antoine Lèonard de Villefeix, the Dominican chaplain of the French navigator, Jean-François-Marie de Surville celebrated Mass in Doubtless Bay, near Whatuwhiwhi, on Christmas Day, 1769.

In 1769 Father Corre resumed the missions in Siam and thus paved the way for the new vicar Apostolic, Msgr.

The chaplain on board the St Jean Baptiste was Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix who conducted the first Christian services in New Zealand on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1769, in Doubtless Bay.

In 1769 he joined the expedition of Gaspar de Portolà and traveled by land, while Father Serra accompanied the mission supplies aboard ship and arrived 8 days later to occupy Monterey ; he authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population after his expedition traveled through the region known today as Orange County on July 22 of that year.

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.

From 1769 to 1823, the Franciscan order led by Junípero Serra and later by Fermín de Francisco Lasuén established twenty-one missions between present-day San Diego and Sonoma, six of which were located in the present-day territory of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

In 1769, Gaspar de Portolà and his under 200 men expedition founded the Presidio of San Diego ( military post ), and on July 16, Franciscan friars Junípero Serra, Juan Viscaino and Fernando Parron raised and ' blessed a cross ', establishing the first mission in upper Las Californias, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

This valley was named Vallejo de Santa Ana in 1769 after the Gaspar de Portolà expedition, of which Friar Junípero Serra was a part, as well as Sargeant José Antonio Yorba, and José Manuel Nieto.

* 1769: Junípero Serra establishes Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the Spanish missions in California.

Serra founded San Diego de Alcalá in 1769.

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

The development was named after Gaspar de Portolà, California's first terrestrial Spanish explorer, who passed through the vicinity in 1769.

In 1769, he worked on the first geological map of France.

Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.

* 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.

Within his first year at Olney a gallery was added to the church to increase its congregational capacity, and the weekly prayer-meetings were moved in 1769 to Lord Dartmouth's mansion, the Great House, to accommodate even greater numbers.

It was first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 or later around 1795.

The first British governor of St. John's Island, Walter Patterson, was appointed in 1769.

The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay.

The Tufted Puffin was first described in 1769 by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.

** James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June 1800 by Act of Parliament and the first engines are built under it.

Captain James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European explorer to circumnavigate and map New Zealand.

According to Cook, the indigenous Californian population at first contact, in 1769, was about 310, 000 and had dropped to 25, 000 by 1910.

* 1769 – James Watt patents his first improved steam engine.

In 1769 he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture given by the Royal Academy, for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas from Troy.

The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark Shakespeare's birthday.

By 1769, a group led by John Durkee became the first Europeans to reach the area.

The short-lived Corsican Republic ( 1755 – 1769 ) was the first country to grant limited universal suffrage for all inhabitants over the age of 25.

The area was claimed by the Spanish in 1769, and in 1772 Commander Don Pedro Fages became the first European to enter it, from the south by way of the Grapevine Canyon.

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 ).