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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.
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In 1779 Father Francisco Garcés was assigned to establish a mission at Yuma crossing of the Colorado River.
1779 and Juan
Juan Bautista de Anza, governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedition in 1779 against the Comanches.
The specific variety, called the Criolla or " Mission grape ", was first planted at Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1779 ; in 1783, the first wine produced in Alta California emerged from the mission's winery.
The Criolla or " Mission grape ," was first planted at San Juan Capistrano in 1779 ; in 1783, the first wine produced in Alta California emerged from the Mission's winery.
Between 1779 and 1787 Col. Juan de Ugalde drove the Mescalaros back across the Rio Grande and into the Chisos Mountains.
In 1777 viceroy Pedro de Cevallos proposed moving the town, but actually it was moved to its present location by viceroy Juan José de Vértiz on 8 May 1779.
1779 and established
Penn has three claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archives director Mark Frazier Lloyd: the 1765 founding of the first medical school in America made Penn the first institution to offer both " undergraduate " and professional education ; the 1779 charter made it the first American institution of higher learning to take the name of " University "; and existing colleges were established as seminaries.
Category: States and territories established in 1779
When originally established in 1779, it was a North Carolina county ; and from 1784 to 1788 was part of the extra-legal State of Franklin.
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: States and territories established in 1779
The first permanent courthouse was established at Richmond in 1779, what is now the modern-day Old Richmond Township in Forsyth County near Donnaha.
Category: States and territories established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: States and territories established in 1779
Category: States and territories established in 1779
Category: States and territories established in 1779
Category: States and territories established in 1779
Southington town centerAlthough Southington was formally established as a town in 1779, its roots go back to a much earlier time.
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Glassboro's early history was built on the manufacturing of glass — the town was first established in 1779 by Solomon Stanger as " Glass Works in the Woods "; glass manufacturers over the years since include Heston-Carpenter Glass Works, Olive Glass Works, Harmony Glass Works, Temperanceville Glass Works, Whitney Brothers Glass Works, Owens Bottle Company, Owens Illinois Glass Company, and Anchor Hocking.
In 1779 Lewisburg was established on land purchased by the commissioners for the erection of the courthouse.
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
Category: Populated places established in 1779
The town was established in 1779 along with Ontario County, and settlement began the following year.
Blumenbach knew that Linnaeus had already established a name Homo troglodytes for a badly known primate, and in 1779 he discussed this Linnean name and concluded correctly that Linnaeus had been dealing with two species, a human and an orangutan, none of them was a chimpanzee, and that by consequence the name Homo troglodytes could not be used.
1779 and two
* Uncommon Valour ( 2005 ) by John Stevens, the story of two naval officers in 1779, is primarily written in the form of diary and log extracts.
In 1777 he married again, to Ann MacGregor, daughter of a Glasgow dye-maker, with whom he had two children: Gregory ( 1777 – 1804 ), who became a geologist and mineralogist, and Janet ( 1779 – 1794 ).
In 1779, at the age of thirty-six, Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia by the two houses of the legislature.
Enlargement and embellishment of an earlier house ( 1779 ) by Thomas Cooley with two single storey domed wings connected by a colonnade of coupled Ionic columns.
During their lifetime Robert and James Adam published two volumes of their designs, Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( in 1773-1778 and 1779 ; a third volume was published posthumously, in 1822 ).
In 1779 Ludd is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage.
In 1779, either after being whipped for idleness, or after being taunted by local youths, he smashed two knitting frames in what was described as a " fit of passion ".
Returning to England in 1779 he found that the taste for classic poetry, ever the source of his inspiration, no longer existed, and he spent two years in Saint Petersburg, being employed by the empress Catherine the Great, who purchased his " Cupid tormenting a Butterfly ".
No work took place immediately, but the Stroudwater was eventually opened in 1779, and within two years the shareholders commissioned a survey for a canal from Dudbridge to Cricklade, which would complete the link.
In the 18th century Hohenems was noted for the discovery of two manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied, found in 1755 and 1779 in the palace's library.
Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England ( 2nd ed., 1780 ) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus ; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World ( 1784 ).
He resigned after two years due to ill health and returned home in early 1779.
Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).
Soon after this in October 1779, Walton was elected Governor of Georgia, a position he held for only two months.
León has fine examples of Spanish Colonial architecture, including the grand Cathedral of the Assumption, built from 1706 to 1740, with two towers added in 1746 and 1779.
It took over two months for General Clay to overcome continued resistance to the new directive JCS 1779, but on July 10, 1947, it was finally approved at a meeting of the SWNCC ( State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee ).
He then served in two more sessions of the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780.
In 1779, however, the fourth Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven died, leaving two sisters as female heirs, and an uncle as an heir male.
On August 26, 1779, Sullivan left Fort Sullivan, where the two columns of his army had converged, with an estimated five thousand well armed and now freshly provisioned troops.
In 1740, the treasurer's office was divided into two districts, and in 1779, into four.
From 1777 to 1779, the State was divided into two districts, Northern and Southern, each with a treasurer.
He died on 7 March 1779 ; his posthumous son Henry succeeded him for two days in August.
In 1750, the palace became a museum — the forerunner of the Louvre —, and was open two days a week until 1779.
The 1779 Corps was organized into a brigade of four regiments, each composed of two battalions of four companies, with the following order of battle:
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