In 1769, aged 17, he enrolled at the new Royal Academy Schools, where he studied architecture under Sir William Chambers, for whom he later worked during the construction of Somerset House.

They had two sons: Henri ( 1767 – 1830 ), who became his official successor, and Gabriel ( 1769 – 1792 ), who also worked in the family business.

* The Commentaries on the Laws of England, a 1769 treatise on law

The Charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III of the United Kingdom | King George III of Great Britain.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter required the creation of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

As a lecturer, Reynolds ' Discourses on Art ( delivered between 1769 and 1790 ) are remembered for their sensitivity and perception.

Driven to extremes, Clement XIII consented to call a consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died ( 2 February 1769 ), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.

Ganganelli was elected Pope Clement XIV on 19 May 1769 and was installed on 4 June 1769, after a conclave that had been sitting since 15 February 1769, heavily influenced by the political manoeuvres of the ambassadors of Catholic sovereigns who were opposed to the Jesuits.

Cardinal Ganganelli was elected pope on 19 May 1769, largely due to support of the Bourbon courts, which had expected that he would suppress the Society of Jesus.

Wine merchant Friedrich Karl Christian Huth, whose great-grandfather had been kellermeister ( cellar-master ) to King Friedrich II back in 1769, had founded the firm in 1871 and taken over the former building in Potsdamer Straße on 23 March 1877.

The general theory of Pell's equation, based on continued fractions and algebraic manipulations with numbers of the form was developed by Lagrange in 1766 – 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.

A second set of arguments were submitted for Millar by William Blackstone on 7 June, and judgment was given on 20 April 1769.

Beside practicing law, Jefferson represented Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Burgesses beginning on May 11, 1769 and ending June 20, 1775.

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 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 ).

William ' Strata ' Smith ( 23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839 ) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.

* William Smith ( geologist ) ( 1769 – 1839 ), British geologist credited with making the first national geological map