Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

* Ignacy Krasicki ( Polish, 1735 – 1801 ), author of Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) and New Fables ( published 1802 )

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

From the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath, and using a, ( f / 13 ) Newtonian telescope " with a most capital speculum " of his own manufacture, in October 1779, Herschel began a systematic search for such stars among " every star in the Heavens ", with new discoveries listed through 1792.

Stiles ' greatest challenge occurred in July 1779 when hostile British forces occupied New Haven and threatened to raze the College.

In 1779 Banks, giving evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, had stated that in his opinion the place most eligible for the reception of convicts " was Botany Bay, on the coast of New Holland ".

In 1779, New Light Baptists held a spiritualistic revival in New Lebanon.

His grandfather Frederick Frelinghuysen ( 1753 – 1804 ) was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first New Jersey Constitution, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a member ( 1778 – 1779 and 1782 – 1783 ) of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and from 1793 to 1796 a member of the United States Senate.

* William Badger ( 1779 – 1852 ), American politician, governor of New Hampshire

Juan Bautista de Anza, governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedition in 1779 against the Comanches.

2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.

Because of an act passed in October 1779, the assembly elected to meet at any place in the state they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, New Castle, and Lewes again, until it finally settled down permanently in Dover in October 1781.

Construction began in 1779 and the bridge opened on New Year's Day 1781.

Washington was incorporated in 1779, with lands carved from the towns of Woodbury, Litchfield, Kent and New Milford.

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

Considered one of the most beautiful churches in New England, it was moved to its present site by oxen in 1779, and renovated in 1826.

" New Breton " would be incorporated as " Andover " in 1779, the year Phillips Andover was completed.

By 1779, there were sixteen families recorded within the bounds of the Alexandria Addition, and they petitioned the General Court to incorporate as the town of " New London " -- officially named after London, England, but perhaps also an acknowledgement of the Londonderry-based proprietors.

Unlike other communities in the region, settled by German settlers, Ames was settled by pioneers from New England around 1779.

The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 passed through the area, which later became part of the Central New York Military Tract.

In 1779 they moved to the Leatherwood Plantation, which he bought with his cousin and her husband in Henry County, Virginia.

In 1779, Henry and his family moved to the Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, Virginia.

Other sources state that Starling Plantation was first settled in 1779 on 7, 000 acres granted by the State of Massachusetts to " Robert Paige and associates.

" Further publishings indicate that one Asa Wiggin laid claim to clearing the first land in Starling Plantation in the year 1779.

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.

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.