In 1769, he became more politically active, presenting the Virginia Assembly with legislation to ban the importation of goods from Great Britain.

Instead, in 1769, he enrolled at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he became roommates and close friends with Philip Freneau, later dubbed " the poet of the Revolution.

In 1769, St. John's Island became a separate colony.

Thus the Kathmandu Valley was conquered by King Prithvi Narayan Shah and Kathmandu became the capital of the modern Nepal by 1769.

The capital was moved to Dili in 1769, due to attacks from the Topasses, who became rulers of several local kingdoms ( Liurai ).

By 1769, a group led by John Durkee became the first Europeans to reach the area.

Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax.

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.

A brick church designed by James Wren replaced the wooden one in 1769, at which point it became the seat of the newly-formed Fairfax Parish.

It became part of the Charleston District in 1769.

The government was linked tightly with Massachusetts until New Hampshire became a separate colony in 1679, but counties weren't introduced until 1769.

The British-American settlement that became Bangor was started in 1769 by Jacob Buswell, and was originally known as Condeskeag ( or Kenduskeag ) Plantation. Kenduskeag Stream

Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock, and Nicholas Clark are credited with having originally settled the eventual township in 1769, and the latter ultimately became Clarksburg's namesake.

Located at the center of Cheshire County, it became county seat in 1769.

After the mill was destroyed by fire in 1769, the settlement became known as Burnt Mills.

On April 3, 1769, Andrew Montour, an Indian interpreter who had provided service to the English settlers during the French and Indian War, was granted one of the first land patents for approximately of what later became the borough of Coraopolis and Neville Island.

The crew of Captain James Cook became the first Europeans to sight the peninsula, during Cook's first circumnavigation of New Zealand in 1769, when he named the feature in honour of the Endeavours botanist, Joseph Banks.

In defiance Wilkes became an Alderman of London in 1769, using his supporters ' group, the Society for the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, for his campaign.

The son was the first Joseph Storrs Fry ( 1769 – 1835 ) who, after his mother's death, renamed the firm J. S. Fry & Sons under which name it became quite well known.

He studied law from 1769 to 1772 in Göttingen where he became a member of Corps Hannovera.

Pontiac or Obwandiyag ( c. 1720 – April 20, 1769 ) was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion ( 1763 – 1766 ), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War.

He became an alderman in 1752, a Sheriff of London in 1756 and was then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1769.

After studying law at Jena, he went in 1769 to Göttingen, where he became one of the leading spirits in the Göttingen " Dichterbund " or " Hain.

After the campaign to subdue the lord of Fang in 1769, Abhaya Ronarit was raised to Phraya Yommaraj and in the next year became Chao Phraya Maha Chakri – the Samuha Nayok ( Prime Minister ).

These exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1769.

Binny & Ronaldson had bought the type founding equipment of Benjamin Franklin ’ s ( 1706 – 1790 ) type foundry established in 1786 and run by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache ( 1769 – 1798 ).

In 1911 author John Steven McGroarty penned The Mission Play, a three-hour pageant describing the California missions from their founding in 1769 through secularization in 1834, and ending with their " final ruin " in 1847.

His efforts against the Stamp Act were commemorated in America with the founding in 1769 of the Pennsylvania town of Wilkes-Barré, named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré.

Both actors played Spanish expedition leaders on a quest that resulted in the 1769 founding of San Diego, California.

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

In 1725 the city was founded Carapeguá, in 1733 was founded Quiindy, in 1766 saw the founding of Ybycuí, in 1769, Pirayú, was in 1775 founded the current capital of the department: Paraguarí.

The Portolá Expedition of 1769, one of the two expeditions that led to the founding of Los Angeles, camped at the Kuruvunga village, while travelling along the route that would become known as El Camino Real.

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.

The elder Lawrence served in the State Assembly, as Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey in 1769, and as a member of the Provincial Council from 1771 to 1775.

* Thomas H. Hughes ( 1769 – 1839 ), the founder and owner of the Congress Hall Hotel, and a Democratic-Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey.

He contributed in 1769 a zoological paper to the 59th volume of the Philosophical Transactions, which led to his being selected an honorary member of the Royal Society in London, and he wrote voluminously on all sorts of subjects.

In 1753, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and on December 15, 1769 a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

In these private letters, written between 1767 and 1769 to Thomas Whately, a then-retired leading member of the British government in the 1760s, Hutchinson, among other inflammatory statements, recommended that popular government be taken away from the people " by degrees ", and that there should be " abridgement of what are called English liberties ".

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

The first member of the Forbes family to live in the United States was John Forbes ( 1740 – 1783 ), a clergyman, who was married to Dorothy Murray on February 2, 1769 in Milton, Massachusetts, where one of his three sons was born.

He was not affiliated with any party ; a Representative from North Carolina ; born near Clinton, Sampson County, N. C., in 1769 ; attended Zion Parnassus Academy in Rowan County and Harvard University ; studied law in Raleigh, N. C .; was admitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in Clinton, N. C .; served in the State House of Commons 1794 and 1795 ; member of the State Senate 1797-1802, 1812, and 1813 ; Governor of North Carolina 1821-1824 ; elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, until his death near Clinton, Sampson County, N. C., September 26, 1829 ; Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Twentieth Congress ); burial in the John Sampson Cemetery.

He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters on October 13 1769.

* Owen Biddle, Sr. ( 1737 – 1799 ), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer-observed 1769 Transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society

Jeanne Baret ( sometimes spelled Baré or Barret ) ( July 27, 1740 – August 5, 1807 ) was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766 – 1769.

Private John Shields ( 1769 – 1809 ) was, at 35, the oldest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The headland was named after an attempt by local Māori to abduct the servant of a member of Captain Cook's crew aboard HMS Endeavour, during a landfall there on 15 October 1769.

In 1769, Müller was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* Cadwallader D. Colden ( 1769 – 1834 ), Colonel in the U. S. Army during the War of 1812, member of New York State Assembly, mayor of New York City, U. S. Representative, and member of New York State Senate

He served as a director of the Library Company of Philadelphia ( 1750-1764 ), a manager of Pennsylvania Hospital ( 1751 – 1752 ), and a member of the American Philosophical Society ( 1769 – 1776 ).

He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1769, but in 1771 entered the Royal Navy as an able seaman ; in 1774 he became member of Parliament for Great Marlow ; and in 1775 he was created a baronet, the baronetcy held by his ancestors, the Borlases, having become extinct in 1689.

In 1769, Laxmann was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Josefa's grandfather, Ygnacio Higuera had been a member of Gaspar de Portolà's Expedition Sancta in 1769 and had accompanied Juan Bautista de Anza in his expedition of 1775 – 76.

It was formerly known as Spöring Island, named by Lt. James Cook after the Finnish draughtsman Herman Spöring, a member of the scientific detachment aboard HM Bark Endeavour, and in 1990 a rock was taken from Pourewa Island to Spöring ’ s birthplace in Turku ( Åbo ), Finland, where it forms part of a monument which was erected there to commemorate the first Finn to land in New Zealand, in 1769.