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In 1769, Cleary Campbell, the first white settler in the area, built a log cabin near the present site of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, and by 1773 William Reed, another settler, had built a cabin surrounded by a stockade and called it Reed's Fort.
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The early breeders of Australian bloodstock were men of historical significance such as Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1846 ), Lieutenant William Lawson ( explorer ), John Macarthur ( wool pioneer ), John Piper ( military officer ) and Dr D ' Arcy Wentworth.
* October 6-Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator ( born 1769 )
She married again in 1769 to Lord Frederick Campbell, but was burned to death at her country seat, Coomb Bank, Kent, on 25 July 1807.
* George W. Campbell ( 1769 – 1848 ), American statesman
Between 1769 and 1771, he collaborated with John Woolfe on two additional volumes of Vitruvius Britannicus, a book of plans and drawings of Palladian revival buildings by such architects as Inigo Jones and Colen Campbell.
The Earl was shot on the beach near his own estate of Ardrossan by an excise officer or Gaudger ( Scots ) named Mungo Campbell on October 24, 1769 following a dispute about the latter's right to bear arms on the Earl's grounds.
* Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1846 ), Australian merchant / politician from New South Wales
It was then sold to Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1846 ) in 1803 when it covered and then proceeded to purchase more land to Liverpool Road.
After his death in 1804, the land was acquired by Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1836 ), a wealthy merchant who built some of the early warehouses along the Sydney Cove waterfront.
1769 and first
In 1769, he worked on the first geological map of France.
Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.
Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.
The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.
William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.
* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.
* 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
Within his first year at Olney a gallery was added to the church to increase its congregational capacity, and the weekly prayer-meetings were moved in 1769 to Lord Dartmouth's mansion, the Great House, to accommodate even greater numbers.
It was first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 or later around 1795.
The first British governor of St. John's Island, Walter Patterson, was appointed in 1769.
The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay.
The Tufted Puffin was first described in 1769 by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.
** James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June 1800 by Act of Parliament and the first engines are built under it.
Captain James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European explorer to circumnavigate and map New Zealand.
According to Cook, the indigenous Californian population at first contact, in 1769, was about 310, 000 and had dropped to 25, 000 by 1910.
* 1769 – James Watt patents his first improved steam engine.
In 1769 he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture given by the Royal Academy, for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas from Troy.
The first real theatre in Stratford was a temporary wooden affair built in 1769 by the actor David Garrick for his Shakespeare Jubilee celebrations of that year to mark Shakespeare's birthday.
Father Juan Crespí, as a member of the Portolà expedition of 1769, authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population in the region that today makes up Orange County, after the group passed through on July 22 of that year.
By 1769, a group led by John Durkee became the first Europeans to reach the area.
The short-lived Corsican Republic ( 1755 – 1769 ) was the first country to grant limited universal suffrage for all inhabitants over the age of 25.
The area was claimed by the Spanish in 1769, and in 1772 Commander Don Pedro Fages became the first European to enter it, from the south by way of the Grapevine Canyon.
It wasn't until 1769 when the area known as Northridge was descriptively first reported by Father Juan Crespi, the prolific diarist who accompanied the exploration party of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà on its arduous trek through California, including the Sepulveda Pass leading to the San Fernando Valley.
Although Spanish ships associated with the Manila Galleon trade probably contacted the Chumash intermittently during this " protohistoric " period, the Spanish first colonized Santa Barbara County in AD 1769, when the DeAnza expedition explored the area and laid plans to establish a series of missions and presidios ( forts ).
1769 and white
Lewis Hallam, Jr., a white actor using blackface makeup of American Company fame, brought blackface in this more specific sense to prominence as a theatrical device in the United States when playing the role of " Mungo ", an inebriated black man in The Padlock, a British play that premiered in New York City at the John Street Theatre on May 29, 1769.
During the uprising of 1769 the historic blue cross on white field was used again by key military leaders who used it all the way to the revolution of 1821.
Scopoli in 1769, literally means " white owl ", from the onomatopoetic Ancient Greek tyto ( τυτο ) for an owl – compare English " hooter " – and Latin alba, " white ".
' It was named ' White Island ' by Captain Cook on October 1, 1769 because it always appeared to be in a cloud of white steam.
1769 and area
By 1769 the situation in the Grants had deteriorated to the point where surveyors and other figures of New York authority were being physically threatened and driven from the area.
Sited in a fertile plain, the Tirana area exported 2, 600 barrels of olive oil and 14, 000 packages of tobacco to Venice by 1769.
In 1769 a movement started to move the county seat from Lewes to the area then known as Cross Roads, the present day site of Milton.
The Orangeburg Judicial District was chartered in 1769 from a mostly unorganized upland area between the Congaree and Savannah rivers.
After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junípero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).
After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).
After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana ( Valley of Saint Anne ).
The modern history of the area was initiated with the establishment of Spanish missions in Alta California in 1769.
Although the area was first settled by feral asian tribes, the first European scavengers arrived in 1769.
Buffalo were seen in the area as late as 1769.
The first colonial settlers arrived in the Nippenose area in 1769.
Larry Burt was already there when surveyors came through in 1769 ( after the land was purchased in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix ), but disappeared sometime soon after, perhaps moving west with the Native Americans who left the area.
The opening of the Pennsylvania Government Land Office in the area in 1769, and the contract of the Pennsylvania Proprietaries with the Indians opened up the Loyalhannah Valley for settlement for pioneers, many of whom were of German and Scotch-Irish descent.
Christopher Saxman in 1764, and Frederick Pershing in 1769 were the first recorded settlers in the area of present-day Youngstown.
During the fall of 1769, Ebenezer Zane explored the Wheeling area and established claim to the land via " tomahawk rights.
The Monkland Canal was conceived in 1769 by tobacco merchants and other entrepreneurs as a way of bringing cheap coal into Glasgow from the coalfields of the Monklands area.
In 1769, the meeting house was constructed, in the area which is now the Common in Reading.
Called Chiswick ( Saxon for " Cheese Farm ") in 1764, the area was settled in 1769.
One last attempt in 1758 by the Iroquois to lay claim to the area ended in 1769 with the payment of 5000 pieces of Spanish Gold for the area of the Kaydeross Patent.
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