1779

• In Russia, created the first publisher.
• Pavlohrad was founded - a city in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, the center of Pavlograd district.
• The first authentic mention of Yartsev .
• In Ireland , volunteer detachments have been set up (up to 100 thousand people). The beginning of the boycott of English goods.
• Mohammed-Amin , the head of the Uzbek tribe Kungrat, captures power in the Khiva Khanate . He ruled on behalf of the Khans-Chinggisids. Founder of the dynasty of Inaks (who ruled on behalf of the fake khans).
• February - The British in the West are defeated by detachments of settlers pioneers R. Clark . The end of the year - the British laid siege to the capital of South Carolina Charleston .
• February 14 - Captain James Cook died on the island of Hawaii . The British expedition was led by Charles Clark ^[1] .
• Russia ultimately demands that Austria and Prussia end the war for the Bavarian inheritance . Teshensky Treaty of Austria and Prussia. Russia, France and the Imperial Diet are recognized as guarantors of the contract. In Bavaria, the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach is established. Austria receives District Inn.
• March 13 - the death of the Iranian ruler Kerim Khan Zend and the struggle for power.
• June 16 - Spain declared war on England.
• June 21 - Spain began a four-year siege of Gibraltar ^[2] .
• August 8 - Catherine II signed a decree on the establishment of a water pipeline in Moscow.
• 16 of September
  • Establishment of the Nizhny Novgorod governorship .
  • Sergach becomes a city.
• September 27 - getting Lipetsk city ​​status.
• The seven-month war of Russia and Kabarda.

See also: Category: Born 1779

• February 21 - Frederick Carl von Savigny , German jurist (d. 1861).
• February 24 - Matija Ahacel , Carinthian Slovenian philologist, journalist, folklorist (d. 1845 ).
• March 6 - Heinrich Jomini , French and Russian military leader and military writer (died 1869 ).
• April 16 - Giovanni Ingirami , Italian astronomer (died 1851 ).
• May 2 - Alexander Yakovlevich Glotov , an officer of the Russian Imperial Navy , inventor , author of a number of works on the maritime theme (d. 1825 ).
• May 3 - Jean Vincent Felix Lamoure , French botanist and zoologist (died 1825 ).
• June 3 - Pierre Amedey Emilian Probe Jobert , French Orientalist (died 1847 ).
• August 7 - Karl Ritter , German geographer (died 1859 ).
• August 24 - Dietrich Georg von Kieser , German physician (died 1862 ).
• September 5 - Franz von Sonnenberg , German poet (died 1805 ).

See also: Category: Dead in 1779

• February 14 - James Cook , English navigator, explorer, cartographer and discoverer (born 1728 ).
• March 30 - Grigory Nikolaevich Teplov , Russian philosopher-encyclopaedist , writer, poet, translator, composer, painter and statesman, de facto leader of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1746 to 1762 (b. 1717 ).
• December 6 - Jean Baptiste Chardin , French painter (b. 1699 ).