* 1769: Christian II Frederick ( until 1791, also Margrave of brandenburg-Ansbach )

The last line of Brandenburg-Bayreuth died out on 20 January 1769 with the death of Margrave Frederick Christian, and Bayreuth passed to Christian Frederick.

* 1769: Christian Frederick ( to 1791 ; also Margrave of Ansbach )

* 1769: The University at Erlangen is given the new name of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in honour of Alexander, Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth.

Charles was among a delegation from Ajaccio in 1769, offered his loyalty and was appointed assessor.

* Josiah Wedgwood II ( 1769 – 1843 ) ( father of Emma Darwin, cousin and wife of the English naturalist Charles Darwin )

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

Its invention is variously ascribed to Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759, or to Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.

* Charles Edward von Hessenstein ( 1737 – 1769 ).

Surry was chartered in 1769, and named for Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey.

Elizabeth died on 1 May 1769 while he was in prison and Charles Burney blamed Arne for his wife's early death due to the overwork and stress he had subjected her to.

Charles Messier first noted the nebula on March 4, 1769, and he also noted three of the stars in Trapezium.

In the same year ( 1769 ), Lavater tried to convert Moses Mendelssohn to Christianity, by sending him a translation of Charles Bonnet's Palingénésie philosophique, and demanding that he either publicly refute Bonnet's arguments or convert.

* July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor ( b. 1769 )

He married in 1769 a daughter of Charles Hutchinson, Governor of St. Helena.

The manor then stayed solidy in the Brune family until the death of Charles Brune in 1769, when the family became extinct in the male line.

* February 21 – John Charles Felix Rossi, sculptor ( b. 1769 )

Charles Townshend's eldest son by his second wife was George Townshend ( 1715 – 1769 ), who after serving for many years in the navy, became an admiral in 1765.

Bowring was born in Exeter of Charles Bowring ( 1769 – 1856 ), a wool merchant from an old Unitarian family, and Sarah Jane Anne ( d. 1828 ), the daughter of Thomas Lane, vicar of St Ives, Cornwall.

In 1763 Eden married Caroline Calvert, daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and in 1769 he succeeded Governor Horatio Sharpe as Governor of Maryland.

On 13 January 1772, Sharp was visited and asked for help by James Somersett, a slave from Virginia in America, who had come to England with his master Charles Stewart in 1769 and had run away in October 1771.

In 1769, the reigning Elector, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, had married Charles August's sister.

After exploring parts of Missouri, he is remembered for founding the city of St. Charles in 1769.

The disease is named after the Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet, who described the condition in 1769.

Dallas was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Dr. Robert Charles Dallas ( 1710 – 1769 ) and Sarah Elizabeth ( Cormack ) Hewitt.

* Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset ( 1711 – 1769 )

Charles Messier added it to his famous catalog in 1769 after precisely measuring its position in the sky.

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.

By the 1830s mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology had emerged with world class science, led by Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) in natural science and Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) in mathematics.

File: AvHumboldt. jpg | Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 )

* Alexander Von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), considered the father of modern geography.

* 1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer, naturalist, and explorer ( d. 1859 )

* May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer ( b. 1769 )

The obsession of the undiscovered continent culminated in the brain of Alexander Dalrymple, the brilliant and erratic hydrographer who was nominated by the Royal Society to command the Transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti in 1769.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt ( September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859 ) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt ( 1767 – 1835 ).

The scientific theory of biogeography grows out of the work of Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), Hewett Cottrell Watson ( 1804 – 1881 ), Alphonse de Candolle ( 1806 – 1893 ), Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823 – 1913 ), Philip Lutley Sclater ( 1829 – 1913 ) and other biologists and explorers.

By the 1830s mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology had emerged with world class science, led by Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) in natural science and Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) in mathematics.

* Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) – German explorer and scientist whose work was foundational to the field of biogeography.

* Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), natural scientist

In 1769 the Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple, whilst translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1762, had found Luis Váez de Torres ' testimony proving a passage south of New Guinea now known as Torres Strait.

Sir Alexander Hope ( 1769 – 1837 ), fourth son of the second Earl ( and second from his third marriage to Lady Elizabeth Leslie ), was a General in the Army and represented Linlithgowshire in the House of Commons.

* Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home ( 1769 – 1841 )

* Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton ( 1723 – 1769 )

Although there are earlier hints ( such as a fragmentary speech by St George from Exeter, Devon, which may date from 1737, although published in 1770 ), the earliest complete text appears to be an undated chapbook of Alexander and the King of Egypt, published by John White ( d. 1769 ) in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1746 and 1769.

In 1769 a Scottish astronomer named Alexander Wilson, working at the Macfarlane Observatory, noticed that the shape of sunspots noticeably flattened as they approached the Sun's limb due to the solar rotation.

Ardrossan North Bay-site of the murder of the Murder of Alexander Montgomerie | 10th Earl of Eglinton in 1769.

* James Alexander ( 1769 – 1848 ), British Member of Parliament for Old Sarum

( 1769 ) and an A. M. ( 1772 ), and taught school for several years in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with his former classmate Alexander Scammel.

Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton ( 10 February 1723 – 25 October 1769 ), was a Scottish peer.

Alexander planned and built the conservation village of Eaglesham, Scotland in 1769 around the basic plan of a capital ' A '.