*, a cutter purchased 1779 ; went missing in the North Sea June 1797, presumed to have foundered.

In 1779 Lewisburg was established on land purchased by the commissioners for the erection of the courthouse.

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 ".

*, 12-gun sloop-of-war Betsy captured from the Americans ; purchased into the Royal Navy March 1777 ; captured by the French, 1778 ; recovered by the British ; recaptured by the French, July 1779 ; renamed Duc DYork ; armed with eighteen, 4-pounder guns ; broken up 1783

*, 14-gun storeship purchased 1779 in the West Indies ; sold 1781

* The 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1776, was converted to a fire ship and renamed Lightning in 1779.

* HMS Repulse was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1779 and in the records until 1781.

* HMS Elephant ( 1776 )-a 10-gun storeship purchased 1776 and sold 1779.

*, a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1779 and sold in 1783

Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant, a manor home built in 1762 for Captain John Macpherson, on 22 March 1779 for his bride, and specifically made the property over to her ownership and that of their future children.

The French Royal Navy purchased her at Bordeaux in 1779 for Jones and sold her when she arrived at Dunkirk in January 1780 after the battle between Bonhomme Richard and the rest of Jones's squadron on the one side, and and hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough on the other.

With his own money, Shelby purchased provisions for John Sevier's 1779 expedition against the Chickamauga, a band of Cherokees who were resisting colonial expansion.

* was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1779.

* was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1778, rated as a sloop between 1779 and 1783, and sold in 1793.

She was purchased in 1777, served until sold in 1779 and continued to harass British shipping as a privateer.

The land and the building were purchased by Jean Bonnet in 1779 and opened as an inn, which was used as a gathering place by protesting local farmers during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion, suppressed months later by forces under President George Washington.

The island was later purchased by the British government in 1779 and Fort Westmoreland was developed on the site to designs by Charles Vallancey.

The greatest speculator in land in the province was Aaron Levy, who in 1779 purchased land in Haines township, Center county, upon which he laid out the town of Aaronsburg ( recorded Oct. 4, 1786 ), the first town in the United States laid out and named after a Jew.

In the summer of 1779, a party of tories and Indians, under the command of a loyalist named McDonald, returned from an incursion into the Susquehanna settlements, bringing with them many of their number wounded.

His writings include a number of essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review from 1804 onwards, various papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ( including his earliest publication, " On the Arithmetic of Impossible Quantities ", 1779, and an " Account of the Lithological Survey of Schehallion ", 1811 ) and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (" On the Causes which Affect the Accuracy of Barometrical Measurements " and others ), the articles " Aepinus " and " Physical Astronomy ", and a " Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Learning in Europe " in the Encyclopædia Britannica ( Supplement to fourth, fifth and sixth editions ).

In 1779 the 63rd took part in a number of engagements, though in 1780 the 63rd would become involved in the campaign in the Carolinas, a campaign that would see their most active involvement in the war.

Dussek composed a number of piano concertos between 1779 and 1810, eighteen of which survive.

She was elected into a number of literal societies and academys, notably the Utile dulci academy in 1779. and received favorable reviews in the press.

* 1779 – Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.

Crompton, whilst living at Hall i ' th ' Wood, invented the spinning mule in 1779.

However, unlike the spinning jenny, the water frame could only spin one thread at a time until Samuel Crompton combined the two inventions into his spinning mule in 1779.

A water mill at Birkacre was leased by Richard Arkwright for cotton spinning in 1778 but was set on fire by machine wreckers in 1779.

* Spinning mule or Compton's mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Compton in 1779

* 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.

He also distinguished himself in the First Anglo-Maratha War of 1775 – 1779.

Also in 1779 Banks took a lease on an estate called Spring Grove, the former residence of Elisha Biscoe ( 1705 – 1776 ), which he eventually bought outright from Biscoe's son also Elisha in 1808.

Cornetts and trombones also formed an independent ensemble of five to eight parts for ceremonial music: in France they were used thus up to Mersenne ’ s time ; in England for such music as John Adson ’ s Courtly Masquing Ayres ( 1621 ), and Matthew Locke ’ s music for ‘ His Majesty ’ s Sagbutts and Cornetts ’ ( 1661 ); in Germany for Turmmusik by J. C. Pezel ( e. g. Fünff-stimmigte blasende Music, 1685 ) and by Gottfried Reiche ; and in Italy in most important cities until the mid-18th century, including Bologna, where the Concerto Palatino was active until 1779 and Rome, where the Concerto Capitolino survived until 1789.

Philidor, both in England and France, was largely recognized in each of his fields and got a lot of admirers, protectors and also friends, like were the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and the famous English actor David Garrick ( 1717 – 1779 ).

Gluck also wrote Armide ( 1777 ), Iphigénie en Tauride ( 1779 ) and Echo et Narcisse for Paris.

He also served as President of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1781, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1784 to 1785, and the 18th Governor of Connecticut from 1786 until his death.

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.

The gun was developed in 1778 or 1779 by the Tyrolese watchmaker, mechanic and gunsmith Bartholomäus Girandoni ( 1744 – 1799 ) and is sometimes referred to as the Girandoni Air Rifle or Girandoni air gun in literature ( the name is also spelled " Girandony ," " Giradoni " or " Girardoni ".

Like his brother he also came to the conclusion that his services had not been adequately appreciated, and the flattering way in which he was welcomed by the Russian court during a visit to Saint Petersburg in 1779 still further incensed him against the perceived ingratitude of his own sovereign.

Blackstone had long suffered from gout, and by November 1779 also had a nervous disorder which caused dizziness, obesity, high blood pressure and possibly diabetes.

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 addition to appearing in works named for Libuše, Přemysl is also a subject of the writings of Wenceslaus Hajek of Libočany published in 1541, a 1779 ballad by Johann Gottfried Herder, fairy tales by Johann Karl August Musäus, and Clemens Brentano's 1815 The Founding of Prague.

The last lord of the manor, also named Frederick Philipse, was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War, so the State of New York confiscated the manor in 1779.

The anonymously published The Blockheads ( 1776 ) and The Motley Assembly ( 1779 ) are also attributed to her.

Pehr Kalm ( 6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779 ) ( in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm ) was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist.

Being threatened with prosecution for this step, and also for libel, he took refuge by changing his Dublin address often-some are recorded as follows: 16 Dorset Street in 1779, 21 Cornmarket till 1783, 180 Abbey Street till 1785, 67 Bride Street in 1786, 97 Bride Street till 1788, and a return to 67 Bride Street from 1789 till 1795 when he fled to the United States, where he remained till 1798.

In 1779, Hervey became Earl of Bristol ( succeeding his brother Augustus Hervey ) and also owner of the family's ancestral home at Ickworth estate in Suffolk.

His father, Mark Hopkins ( 1779 – 1828 ), served as Postmaster, first in Henderson, NY, then in St. Clair, MI ( known then as Palmer ), where he was also Judge of Probate.

In 1779, the third Panchen Lama, a cosmopolitan priest fluent also in Hindi and Persian and well disposed to both Catholic missionaries in Tibet and British East India Company agents in India, was invited to Peking for the celebrations of the Emperor's 70th birthday.

Smaller communities were in Jaffa, Haifa, Peki ' in, Acre, Nablus, Shfaram and until 1779 also in Gaza.

The Battle of Newtown ( August 29, 1779 ), also known as the Battle of Chemung, was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by General John Sullivan that was ordered by the Continental Congress to end the threat of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

The Black Eye Galaxy ( also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy ; designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826 ) was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780.

She was also known for her role as Perdita ( heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale ) in 1779 and as the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.