* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician ( d. 1779 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

* 1813 – Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer ( b. 1779 )

In any case Napoleon went to Brienne 1779 – 1784.

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

* 1698 – William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester ( d. 1779 )

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

** Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1771 – 1779 )

Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779 – 1822.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.

* 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

* 1717 – David Garrick, British actor ( d. 1779 )

* 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer ( d. 1842 )

* Ignacy Krasicki ( Polish, 1735 – 1801 ), author of Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) and New Fables ( published 1802 )

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

* 1779 June – In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, Spain declared war against Great Britain ( as France had done the year before )

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

His popularity grew in 1779 and 1780, due largely to the run-away sales of his newly published Opus 2 Sonatas.

* French frigate Hermione ( 1779 ), a French frigate that carried La Fayette to join the American fight for independence in 1780

Both his grandmothers took care of Benjamin, who was educated by private tutors in Belgium ( 1779 ), Holland ( 1780 ), and at the protestant University of Erlangen ( 1783 ), where he got appointed at the court of Duchess Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

The races were first run in 1780 and 1779 respectively.

Its introduction into France was forbidden in 1779 ; the book was burned by the public executioner, and an order was given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared in the first edition, but was printed on the title page of the Geneva edition of 1780.

French entry into the war would lead to further escalation of the war when Spain entered the fight against England as France's ally, after the signing of the Treaty of Aranjuez on April 12, 1779, and again in December 1780 when England declared war on the Dutch Republic after seizing a Dutch merchant ship they claimed was carrying contraband to France during the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt.

In the winter of 1779 – 1780, ten-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte ( Vladimir Roudenko ) is enrolled at Brienne College, a military school for sons of nobility, run by the religious Minim Fathers in Brienne-le-Château, France.

Muhlenberg was a member of the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780, and served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1780 to 1783.

Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England ( 2nd ed., 1780 ) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus ; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World ( 1784 ).

The first obverse, showing a right-facing bust of the king, with the inscription, was used in 1763, 1766, 1770, 1772, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1784, and 1786 ; the second obverse, showing an older bust of the king and the same inscription, was used in 1792, 1795, and 1800, while the third, laureated bust of the king with the inscription was used in 1817, 1818 and 1820.

This led to the establishment of a weekly periodical called the Mirror ( 23 January 1779 – 27 May 1780 ), of which Mackenzie was editor and chief contributor.

and C. P., from 1746 to 1779 ( 1780 )

* 1779 – 1780 – Continental Army in winter quarters at Morristown ( December – May )

Conditions were exceptionally harsh in the winter of 1779 – 80, and Washington's army was again largely inactive in 1780 while the main action in the war moved south.

V: 1 November 1779 to 31 May 1780.

In 1779, and effective in April 1780, the House of Delegates moved the capital city to Richmond during the American Revolutionary War for safety reasons.

He was President of the state's Executive Council from 1777 – 1779, which effectively made him the governor before the 1780 ratification of the Massachusetts Constitution.

In 1779 and 1780 Clymer and his son Meredith engaged in a lucrative trade with St. Eustatius.

A 1779 inventory signed by Hewes, as well as a 1780 newspaper account of his estate sale, both indicate that Hewes owned slaves.

From 1779 to 1780, Lewis served as the Chairman of the Continental Board of Admiralty.

He returned to Massachusetts at the end of December 1776 and there was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1777, a member of the executive council in 1779, a member of the committee that drafted the state constitution in 1780.