The first mention of the term buck drivers ( old spelling " bockereyders ") comes from the book: Oorzaeke, bewys and discoveries of a godless, sworn gang night-thieves and within the countries and Overmaeze, written in 1779 by SJP Sleinada ( a pseudonym of Father A. Daniels-read the name backwards ).

A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

* General George Rogers Clark ( 1752 – 1818 ), Revolutionary war hero, conqueror of the old Northwest Territory ( modern day midwest of the US ), hero of the Battle of Fort Sackville ( Vincennes IN ) Feb. 1779, Father and founder of the Midwest.

# Casimir Pulaski ( 1745 – 1779 ), Polish military officer who fought on the side of the American colonists against the British in the American Revolutionary War ; member of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility, politician who has been called " The Father of the American Cavalry ", enacted on November 6, 2009, posthumously

Saint Cosmas of Aetolia ( sometimes Kosmas of Aetolia or Cosmas / Kosmas the Aetolian or Patrokosmas " Father Cosmas ") ( Greek: Κοσμάς Αιτωλός, Kosmas Etolos ) ( born at some time between 1700 and 1714 – dead 1779 ) was a monk in the Greek Orthodox Church and an important figure in the Greek Enlightenment.

The town of New Iberia dates from spring 1779, when a group of 500 Malagueños colonists and Colonel Francisco Bouligny

In 1779 Francisco Fernández de Viedma founded both Mercedes de Patagones ( current Viedma ) and Carmen de Patagones ( Buenos Aires Province ) on opposite sides of the Río Negro River's mouth.

Bridge over the Río Negro ( Argentina ) | Río Negro linking the twin cities. Together with Carmen de Patagones city across the river in the Buenos Aires Province, it is the oldest settlement in Patagonia, founded by Francisco de Biedma y Narváez under the name of Nuestra Señora del Carmen on 22 April 1779.

It was named by Francisco Antonio Mourelle on May 24, 1779.

In 1779 Garcés and Juan Diaz established two mission churches on the lower Colorado River at Yuma Crossing, as part of a new pueblo ( secular settlement ), in the Quechan peoples ( Yuma or Kwítsaín ) homeland.

This close approximation to the modern value of − 273. 15 ° C for the zero of the air-thermometer was further improved upon in 1779 by Johann Heinrich Lambert, who observed that − 270 ° C might be regarded as absolute cold.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.

The Iron Bridge completed in 1779 was the first cast iron bridge.

In 1779, New Pennacook Plantation was granted to Timothy Walker, Jr. and his associates at what would be incorporated in 1800 as Rumford, Maine, the site of Pennacook Falls.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

The artist's last known oil painting was dated 1776 ; his final Salon participation was in 1779, and featured several pastel studies.

Organised worship in England for those whose beliefs anticipated those of Christadelphians only truly became possible in 1779 when the Act of Toleration 1689 was amended to permit denial of the Trinity, and only fully when property penalties were removed in the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813.

English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.

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 ).

In 1779, David was able to see the ruins of Pompeii, and was filled with wonder.

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 ".

As part of the fledgling nation's government, he was treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778 ; appointed judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787 ; and helped ratify the Constitution during the constitutional convention in 1787.

A British relief force was defeated in the naval Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779.

The word geology was first used by Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, then by Jean-André Deluc in 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1779.

Perhaps the most notable of these was the Protestant pastor Georg Conrad Horst ( 1779 – 1832 ), who from 1821 to 1826 published a six-volume collection of magical texts in which he studied grimoires as a peculiarity of the Mediaeval mindset.

Upon his return to Britain in 1779, Vancouver was commissioned as a lieutenant and posted aboard the sloop surveying coastlines.

Hilaire Marin Rouelle ( February 1718, Mathieu – April 7, 1779, Paris ) was a French chemist.

The Madron parish register records ‘ Humphry Davy, son of Robert Davy, baptized at Penzance, January 22nd, 1779 .’ Robert Davy was a wood carver at Penzance, who pursued his art more for enjoyment than for profit.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779.

On 11 February 1779 Keppel was acquitted of all charges and became a national hero.

First described by English illustrator John Frederick Miller in 1779, the Secretarybird was soon assigned to its own genus, Sagittarius, by French naturalist Johann Hermann in his Tabula Affinatum Animalium.

After a successful cruise under Captain John Burroughs Hopkins, she was assigned to the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition under Captain Dudley Saltonstall, where she was trapped by the British and burned on August 15, 1779 to prevent her capture.

To storm the position, the Corps of Light Infantry was formed on June 12, 1779, with command assigned to General Wayne.

In 1779 he was assigned as adjutant and major to Light Horse Harry Lee's Southern Legion and fought in the Southern Campaigns.

In 1779 the remaining men of the 47th were assigned to assist in construction of a new fort at Carleton Island.

She was Lady Sash in the Camp, assigned to Sheridan, Drury Lane, 15 Oct. 1778 ; Mrs Sullen in Colman's Separate Maintenance, Drury Lane, 31 Aug. 1779 ; Cecilia in Miss Lee's Chapter of Accidents, Haymarket, 5 Aug. 1780 ; Almeida in Pratt's Fair Circassian, 27 Nov. 1781 ; and enacted the heroines of various comedies and dramas of Mrs. Cowley, Mrs. Inchbald, General Burgoyne, Miles Peter Andrews, and of other writers.

In July 1779 Posey was assigned to command a battalion of light infantry in Corps of Light Infantry commanded by Brig-Gen. Anthony Wayne.

The regiment arrived in Jamaica in March 1779 and had dectachments assigned the role of marines.

It reconstruction successful, the Curate of nearby Arrecifes ordained a Parish in Pergamino in 1779 and the new Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata assigned the area a partido ( county ) in 1784.