* 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 – 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 )

The excellent location of St. Louis caught the attention of English who occupied it three times for a few months in 1693, then during the Seven Years ' War of 1758 until it was taken by the Duc de Lauzun in 1779, lastly 1809 in 1816.

Louis XVI issued a decree banning these practices on 8 August 1779 but the Parlement of Besançon blocked this till 1787.

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who voyaged between 1766 and 1769, and James Cook, who voyaged from 1768 to 1779, carried out their explorations in the South Pacific, information on the oceans themselves formed part of the reports.

This is the case of the fountain-pillory, Louis XVI style, built in 1779 by the blue stone Ouvertus architect.

Although named after Joseph Louis Lagrange, it was first discovered in 1779 by Edward Waring and rediscovered in 1783 by Leonhard Euler.

In 1779, Louis de Rohan succeeded his uncle, Constantine de Rohan-Rochefort, as bishop of Strasbourg, though he spent much of his career working in Paris, as he preferred a fashionable life to his clerical duties ; also in 1779, he became abbot of Noirmoutiers and Chaise-Dieu.

Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, as Duke of Chartres, by sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1779, Château de Chantilly

* Louis Charles d ' Orléans ( 17 October 1779 – 30 May 1808 ), who died in exile in Malta.

Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet ( 7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841 ) was a French navigator.

The unified region collapsed in 1779, when the French recaptured Saint Louis and burned the major British settlement in the Gambia region, leading to the end of the unified region in 1783.

Louis Charles Alphonse Léodgard d ' Orléans, Count of Beaujolais ( 17 October 1779 – 30 May 1808 ) was a French nobleman, son of Philippe Égalité and the younger brother of King Louis-Philippe I of the French.

* Louis de Freycinet ( 1779 – 1842 ), French navigator

De Bury received a royal pension beginning in 1779, and was ennobled by Louis XVI in 1785, a few months before his death, which occurred at Versailles.

* Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin ( 1779 – 1841 ), French painter

Although her parents had arranged godparents in advance, there was no time to call them to the church, and so at 5: 00 a. m. on December 13, 1779, Louise-Sophie Cédor, a local woman on her way to early Mass, and Sophie ’ s older brother, Louis, stood in as her godparents.

* Louis Leonard ( 1700 – 1779 ) and Joseph Anthony ( 1703 – 1770 ) were brothers and both worked in the Neapolitan service

Three years later he was made adjutant to the general of the master legion of foreign volunteers in the navy and that same year he left for Senegal on a campaign with the Duc de Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut, returning safely in 1779.

His numerous works include Contes philosophiques et moraux ( 1765 ), Les Deux Ages du goût et du génie sous Louis XIV et sous Louis XV ( 1769 ), a parallel and contrast, in which the decision is given in favor of the latter ; L ' Espagne littéraire ( 1774 ); Eloge de Voltaire ( 1779 ) and Eloge de Montaigne ( 1781 ).