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The Iron Bridge is completed across the Severn river in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron bridge ever constructed.
Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine, now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service.
The city of Tampere is founded in Finland.
May 13 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives a part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
June 1 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property.
July 16 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point (town), New York from British troops.
December 13 - Marriage of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais to Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie.
December 25 - Fort Nashborough, later to become Nashville, Tennessee, founded by James Robertson.
Births
January 5 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer
January 18 - Peter Roget, lexicographer (+ 1869)
March 6 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, General (d. 1869)
March 15 - Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister.
May 28 - Thomas Moore, poet (+ 1852)
August 20 - Jons Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist.
November 14 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet
Deaths
January 20 - David Garrick, actor
February 14 - James Cook (b. 1728), British naval captain and explorer, killed at Kealakekua Bay on the Island of Hawai'i.
December 6 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan
Category:1779
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