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

* 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 )

In 1810 John ( 1779 – 1841 ), the eldest son of Francis, was admitted a partner.

* Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon ( 1779 – 1828 ) ( confirmed in title 1819 )

* Francis Almeric Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill ( 1779 – 1845 )

On January 29, 1779, Francis Vigo, an Italian fur trader, came to Kaskaskia to inform Clark about Hamilton's reoccupation of Vincennes.

Francis IV Joseph Charles Ambrose Stanislaus ( Italian: Francesco IV Giuseppe Carlo Ambrogio Stanislao d ' Absburgo-Este ; 6 October 1779 – 21 January 1846 ) was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola ( from 1815 ), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara ( from 1829 ), Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

* Francis IV, Duke of Modena ( 1779 – 1846 )

According to the 1779 book Nocturnal Revels, on the Grand Tour he had visited various religious seminaries, " founded, as it were, in direct contradiction to Nature and Reason ; on his return to England, thought that a burlesque Institution in the name of St Francis, would mark the absurdity of such Societies ; and in lieu of the austerities and abstemiousness there practised, substitute convivial gaiety, unrestrained hilarity, and social felicity.

* Francis Wheatley ( 1747 – 1801 ) The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4 November 1779 1779 – 80

Francis Baring's other distraction from his firm was his directorship of the East India Company from 1779.

* Francis IV ( 1779 – 1846 ), next Duke of Modena, married Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy

Francis IV of Austria-Este ( 1779 – 1846 )

She travelled in Ireland, where she can be seen watching a review of the Irish Volunteers in a picture by Francis Wheatley in November 1779.

Newton was instrumental in converting Scott from a cynical ' career priest ' to a true believer, a conversion Scott related in his spiritual autobiography The Force Of Truth ( 1779 ).

In 1778 Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school, and in October 1779 he began at the Royal High School of Edinburgh.

Furloughed at the end of the Philadelphia campaign, Scott returned to active service in March 1779 and was ordered to South Carolina to assist General Benjamin Lincoln in the southern theater.

A March 1779 letter from Washington to Scott, still on furlough in Virginia, ordered him to recruit volunteers in Virginia and join Washington at Middlebrook on May 1.

( Barnes Compton was able to trace his ancestry to politician Philip Key, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1779 to 1790, who was a maternal great-grandfather.

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

France recaptured Grenada between 2-4 July 1779 during the American War of Independence, after Comte d ' Estaing stormed Hospital Hill.

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.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.

* 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

* 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

* 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet ( d. 1863 )

* 1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist ( d. 1851 )

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.

* 1820 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer ( b. 1779 )

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.

* 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

* 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

* 1779 – Joseph Story, American lawyer and jurist ( d. 1845 )

At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).

In 1779, at Jefferson's behest, William and Mary appointed his mentor George Wythe as the first professor of law in an American university.

Penn has three claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archives director Mark Frazier Lloyd: the 1765 founding of the first medical school in America made Penn the first institution to offer both " undergraduate " and professional education ; the 1779 charter made it the first American institution of higher learning to take the name of " University "; and existing colleges were established as seminaries.