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In 1779 he became professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, a chair he occupied for almost 25 years.
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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.
On 11 February 1779 Keppel was acquitted of all charges and became a national hero.
In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.
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 ).
On 7 November 1778 the King and Queen visited Amherst at his home, Montreal Park, in Kent and on 24 April 1779 he became colonel of the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.
Colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washington's first chief engineer ; however, it was not until 1779 that Congress created a separate Corps of Engineers.
Lord George Gordon became the President of the Protestant Association in 1779 to force the repeal of this legislation.
In 1779 the southern third of Guilford County became Randolph County.
In 1779 the northern part of what remained of Anson County became Montgomery County, and the part east of the Pee Dee River became Richmond County.
The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 passed through the area, which later became part of the Central New York Military Tract.
Jonesborough was founded in 1779, 17 years before Tennessee became a state.
In 1779 it became an Austrian town under the terms of the treaty of Teschen, which settled the War of the Bavarian Succession.
In 1779 he became lieutenant-general of the naval forces.
Anton Raphael Mengs ( March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779 ) was a German painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.
In 1779, Louis de Rohan succeeded his uncle, Constantine de Rohan-Rochefort, as bishop of Strasbourg, though he spent much of his career working in Paris, as he preferred a fashionable life to his clerical duties ; also in 1779, he became abbot of Noirmoutiers and Chaise-Dieu.
In 1779, priest Partenije Popović became a monk of the Saint Mark Koriški Monastery, to where he brought several important books.
During the Penobscot Expedition, in 1779 Townsend became a rendezvous point for the American naval fleet prior to its disastrous encounter with the British at Castine.
Whipple became a Council member, and a member of the Committee of Safety, and was elected to the Continental Congress, serving there through 1779.
They both appreciated her intelligence and, in July 1779, she became the governess of the couple's twin daughters born in 1777.
In 1779, Bečkerek became a seat of Torontal county.
In the late 1990s, Sahlins became embroiled in a heated debate with Gananath Obeyesekere over the details of Captain James Cook's death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779.
In 1779, Rostov-on-Don became associated with a settlement of Armenian refugees from the Crimea.
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In 1779, at Jefferson's behest, William and Mary appointed his mentor George Wythe as the first professor of law in an American university.
From 1779 to 1792, he dedicated himself to teaching at San Nicolas as a professor of Latin grammar and arts, then as a theology professor.
For fear of losing him, the authorities at Amsterdam nominated him professor of philosophy in 1779.
* Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ; professor at KI ), invented modern chemical notation and is considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry ; discoverer of the elements silicon, selenium, thorium, and cerium.
* Benjamin Silliman ( 1779 – 1864 ), first professor of science at Yale and first to distill petroleum.
In 1779 Wythe was appointed by the legislature to the newly created Chair of Law at the College of William and Mary, becoming the first law professor in the United States.
* Eli Ives ( 1779 – 1861 )— professor of Medicine
* John Rutherford ( physician ) ( 1695 – 1779 ), Scottish professor father of Daniel Rutherford
Her six brothers and sisters included Edward Taylor ( 1784 – 1863 ), a singer and music professor, John Taylor ( 1779 – 1863 ), a mining engineer, Richard Taylor ( 1781 – 1858 ), a printer and editor and publisher of scientific works.
Paul Schützenberger ( 23 December 1829 – 26 June 1897 ), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger ( 1779 – 1859 ) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger ( 1809 – 1881 ) professor of chemical medicine.
After having worked as a docent and a librarian at the university library, he became an extraordinary professor in 1779 and was appointed to the Skyttean professorship of Eloquence and Political Science in 1781, after the death of his teacher Johan Ihre.
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In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.
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.
There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.
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.
* Carl Ritter ( 1779 – 1859 ), considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.
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.
In 1779 at age 16 he emigrated to London, where he learned English while working for his brother, George Astor, manufacturing musical instruments.
* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke ( 1745 – 1815 ), a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
* 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war.
In Hawaii at the time of Captain Cook's visit ( 1779 Chr. E.
In 1778 Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school, and in October 1779 he began at the Royal High School of Edinburgh.
In 1779, at the age of thirty-six, Jefferson was elected Governor of Virginia by the two houses of the legislature.
He worked at Birmingham General Hospital from 1779.
* 1779 " An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina ; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 " Publ Cadell London
In March 1779, Banks married Dorothea Hugessen, daughter of W. W. Hugessen, and settled in a large house at 32 Soho Square ( now comprising British offices for 20th Century Fox ).
In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".
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