* 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 )

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

* 1779 – 1782: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson

* Samuel Fowler ( 1779 – 1844 ), who served in the House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837.

David Garrick ( 19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779 ) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

It was drafted by John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Bowdoin during the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention between September 1 and October 30, 1779.

* Samuel Herrick, ( 1779 – 1852 ), born in Amenia, United States Congressman from Ohio.

Samuel was the only child of the Reverend Thomas Chase ( c. 1703 – 1779 ) and his wife, Matilda Walker (?- by 1744 ), born near Princess Anne, Maryland.

* Lillian de la Torre, in the short story " The Tontine Curse ," features mysterious deaths related to a tontine in 1779, being investigated by Samuel Johnson.

* 1779 / 80 Samuel Worthington Samuel Green

* Northampton County: Allen Jones, elected to the Continental Congress, resigned October 25, 1779 ; Samuel Lockhart elected to replace Jones, served during third session

About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin, and which was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i ' th ' Wood ( pronounced Hall-ith-wood ) wheel, from the name of the house in which he and his family resided.

Portrait of John Gay from Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, the 1779 edition.

James Thomson ( poet ) | James Thomson, from the 1779 edition of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

Samuel Delucenna Ingham ( September 16, 1779 – June 5, 1860 ) was a U. S. Congressman and U. S. Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.

now Princeton University ; he probably followed Samuel Stanhope Smith, who was teaching at Prince Edward Academy when he was appointed President of the College in 1779.

Their children included James Bayard ( 1760 – 1788 ) ( 1760 – 1788 ), Andrew Bayard ( 1762 – 1833 ), Samuel Bayard ( 1766 – 1840 ), Jane Bayard ( 1772 – 1851 ) who married Andrew Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Bayard ( 1774 – 1821 ), Margaret Bayard ( 1778 – 1844 ), and Anna Bayard ( 1779 – 1869 ).

His name is listed on the 1779 Masonic rolls of Solomon's Lodge No. 1 at Savannah along with George Walton, John Adam Treutlen, James Jackson, Nathaniel Pendelton, and General Samuel Elbert.

* Samuel Young ( New York ) ( 1779 – 1850 ), New York state politician

However, unlike the spinning jenny, the water frame could only spin one thread at a time until Samuel Crompton combined the two inventions into his spinning mule in 1779.

His father's name was Shmuel ( Samuel ) ( d. 1779, 15 Sivan 5539 ) and his mother's name was Reizel the daughter of Elchanan .< ref name =" EleToldot ">

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets ( 1779 – 81 ) was a work by Samuel Johnson, comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.

* Samuel Stanhope Smith, 1775 – 1779

* Samuel Parker ( 1779 – 1804 )