Major Events
- Mar 16 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's expedition of two ships completes first French circumnavigation of the world arriving in Saint-Malo, France (also carried 1st woman to circumnavigate the world, Jeanne Baré) [1]
- Apr 13 British ship Endeavour captained by James Cook, arrives in Matavia Bay, Tahiti, with botanist Joseph Banks on board
- Apr 22 Madame du Barry becomes French King Louis XV's "official" mistress
- Apr 29 Scottish engineer James Watt's patent for a steam engine with a separate condenser enrolled (Patent 913)
- Jun 4 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history
- Jun 7 American frontiersman Daniel Boone ascends Pilot Knob, setting sight on the fertile hunting grounds of what is now known as the Bluegrass Region of the State of Kentucky [exact date disputed]
- Jun 17 Design of Madonnina statue chosen, symbol of the city of Milan that stands atop spire of the Cathedral, designed by sculptor Giuseppe Perego [1]
- Jul 14 The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California)
- Jul 16 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego the 1st mission in California
- Aug 18 A lightning strike on the Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia, Italy, ignites 90 tonnes of gunpowder, killing 3,000 people
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Arthur Wellesley
Napoléon Bonaparte
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Who Died in 1769
- Jan 18 Hakuin Ekaku, Japanese Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan at 82
- Jan 24 François de Chevert, French general, fought in War of Austrian Succession, dies at 73
- Feb 2 Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
- Mar 27 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
- Apr 3 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist and poet (wrote in blood), dies at 71
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Famous Divorces in 1769
- Mar 23 Augustus FitzRoy, English Duke of Grafton divorces the Duchess of Grafton, (formerly Hon. Anne Liddell) by an Act of Parliament
Augustus FitzRoy
Frederick the Great