* 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 )

* 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 )

* Carl Ritter ( 1779 – 1859 ), considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.

* September 28 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( b. 1779 )

Friedrich Carl von Savigny ( 21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861 ) was one of the most respected and influential 19th-century jurists and historians.

Carl Ritter ( August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859 ) was a German geographer.

** Carl Jonas Pfeiffer ( 1779 – 1836 ), German malacologist, uncle of Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer

* 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter ( d. 1779 )

* 1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( d. 1779 )

* November 1 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( d. 1779 )

* Gottfried Weber ( 1779 – 1839 ), German music theorist

Unlike other communities in the region, settled by German settlers, Ames was settled by pioneers from New England around 1779.

Lorenz Oken ( 1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851 ) was a German naturalist.

Anton Raphael Mengs ( March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779 ) was a German painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.

* March 12-Johann Friedrich Cotta, German theologian ( died 1779 )

In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay ( here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrie de la Suisse, published in German in 1781 ), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part ( 1791 ) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille.

The U. S. occupation directive JCS 1067, whose economic section had prohibited " steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy ", was replaced by the new U. S. occupation directive JCS 1779 which instead stated that " an orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

In July 1947 JCS 1067, which had directed the U. S. forces of occupation in Germany to "... take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy ", was replaced by JCS 1779 which instead stated that " An orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

In view of increased concerns by General Lucius D. Clay and the Joint Chiefs of Staff over communist influence in Germany, as well as of the failure of the rest of the European economy to recover without the German industrial base on which it was dependent, in the summer of 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall, citing " national security grounds ," was finally able to convince President Harry S. Truman to remove JCS 1067, and replace it with JCS 1779.

The " Morgenthau boys " resigned en masse when the JCS 1779 was approved, but before they went the Morgenthau followers in the decartelization division of OMGUS accomplished one last task in the spring of 1947, the destruction of the old German banking system.

Several German textbooks published about 1800 reported that the mistake was first identified by Christlieb Benedikt Funk in 1779, but the construction itself appears to have received little notice until the middle of the twentieth century when tuning theorist J. Murray Barbour presented it as a good method for approximating equal temperament and similar exponentials of small roots, and generalized its underlying mathematical principles.

However, thanks to the introduction of JCS 1779 and the first Allied attempts to set up German governance, something could be done about this.

* Franz Joseph Molitor ( 1779 – 1860 ), German writer and philosopher

* Anton Raphael Mengs ( German, 1728 – 1779 )

Johann Philipp Gustav von Ewers or Evers ( July 27, 1779 in Amelunxen – November 20, 1830 in Dorpat ) was a German legal historian and the founder of Russian legal history as a scholarly discipline.

The Bowmore Distillery was established in 1779 by a local merchant, John P. Simpson, before passing into the ownership of the Mutter family, a family of German descent.

The remaining soldiers ( some 2, 000 British, upwards of 1, 900 German, and roughly 300 women and children ) marched south in late 1778 — arriving at the site ( near Ivy Creek ) in January 1779.