" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

A major breakthrough in bridge technology came with the erection of the Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale, England in 1779.

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

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

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 ).

His works, first collected in 1779, were edited, with newly discovered letters, by J. P. Browne ( London, 1873 ).

Modern phonetics begins with attempts — such as those of Joshua Steele ( in Prosodia Rationalis, 1779 ) and Alexander Melville Bell ( in Visible Speech, 1867 ) — to introduce systems of precise notation for speech sounds.

Many specimens were collected with the help of his Japanese collaborators Keisuke Ito ( 1803 – 1901 ), Mizutani Sugeroku ( 1779 – 1833 ), Ohkochi Zonshin ( 1796 – 1882 ) and Katsuragawa Hoken ( 1797 – 1844 ), a physician to the Shogun.

The Russians of Pavel Lebedev-Lastochkin in Japan, with their ships tossed inland by a tsunami, meeting some Japanese in 1779

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.

Giovanni Fabbroni is credited with the discovery of naphtha as a rubber solvent in 1779.

Telford ’ s reputation as a man of letters may have preceded his fame as an engineer: he had published poetry between 1779 and 1784, and an account of a tour of Scotland with Southey.

However, by 1815, with the publication of physician Gilbert Blane's On the Comparative Health of the British Navy from 1779 to 1814, the efficacy of portable soup for promoting the health of sailors was found lacking.

The effect of these raids, particularly when coupled with his capture of the Royal Navy's HMS Drake — the first such success in British waters, but not Jones's last — was to force the British government to increase resources for coastal defence, and to create a climate of fear among the British public which was subsequently fed by press reports of his preparations for the 1779 Bonhomme Richard mission.

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.

The dendrochronologists date the bulk of the wood from buildings of the Waršama Sarayi to 1832 BC, with further refurbishments up to 1779 BC.

In the fall of 1779 on orders from commander-in-chief General George Washington the Sullivan Expedition conducted a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois who sided with the Loyalists in the Revolutionary War.

William McIntosh led a group of pro-British Hitchiti, and most of the Lower Creeks nominally allied with Britain after the 1779 Capture of Savannah.

California's first vineyard was located on the Mission grounds, with the planting of the " Mission " or " Criollo " grape in 1779, one grown extensively throughout Spanish America at the time but with " an uncertain European origin.

In October 1779, Joséphine went to France with her father.

In the autumn of 1779, a large party of immigrants came with him, including ( according to tradition ) the family of Abraham Lincoln's grandfather.

By 1779, along with his cousin and her husband, Henry owned a plantation known by the name of Leatherwood.

* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician ( d. 1779 )

* 1698 – William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester ( d. 1779 )

* 1717 – David Garrick, British actor ( d. 1779 )

* 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer ( d. 1842 )

France recaptured Grenada between 2-4 July 1779 during the American War of Independence, after Comte d ' Estaing stormed Hospital Hill.

* 1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer ( d. 1779 )

* 1709 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder ( d. 1779 )

* 1779 – Tsarina Elizabeth Alexeievna ( d. 1826 )

* 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet ( d. 1863 )

* 1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist ( d. 1851 )

* 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet ( d. 1852 )

* 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist ( d. 1779 )

* 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general ( d. 1869 )

* 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter ( d. 1779 )

* 1704 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( d. 1779 )

* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( d. 1779 )

* ditto d ' Astronomie ( 1746 ), 4th edition augmented by Lalande ( 1779 )

* 1728 – Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer ( d. 1779 )

* 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer ( d. 1779 )

* 1711 – William Boyce, English composer ( d. 1779 )