Today in History for Year 1769

Months in Year 1769: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

Apr 22nd - Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
Jun 4th - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
Jun 7th - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
Jul 14th - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
Jul 16th - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
Aug 18th - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
Sep 18th - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
Oct 8th - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay)
Dec 12th - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
Dec 13th - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 5th - Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
Jan 10th - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo)
Jan 17th - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
Feb 4th - Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer
Feb 9th - Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
Feb 13th - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
Mar 2nd - DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
Mar 7th - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
Mar 10th - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)
Mar 23rd - William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
Mar 23rd - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
Mar 25th - Salvatore Vigano, composer
Mar 29th - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
Apr 3rd - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
Apr 11th - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
Apr 12th - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
Apr 13th - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
Apr 25th - Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
May 1st - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30)
1st Duke of Wellington & British Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley (May 1st) May 4th - Charles Hague, composer
May 6th - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
May 7th - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
May 10th - Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
May 20th - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
Jun 1st - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
Jun 14th - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
Jul 4th - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
Jul 23rd - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
Aug 14th - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
Aug 15th - Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15), (d. 1821)
Aug 16th - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
Aug 18th - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
Aug 23rd - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
Aug 30th - Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Aug 15th) Sep 9th - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42)
Sep 14th - Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer ( Kosmos), (d. 1859)
Sep 19th - Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas
Oct 7th - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
Oct 13th - Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 13 of 13

Jan 18th - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
Jan 24th - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
Feb 2nd - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
Mar 27th - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
Apr 3rd - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
Apr 20th - Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered
Jun 1st - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
Aug 2nd - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
Aug 29th - Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
Oct 9th - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
Nov 23rd - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
Dec 13th - C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54
Dec 30th - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)