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What Happened In Year 1769?

• July 14, 1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
• July 16, 1769 – Father Junipero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
• November 2, 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
• December 13, 1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.
• December 22, 1769 – Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.

Who Were Born In The Year 1769?

• January 10, 1769 – Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
• February 9, 1769 – Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
• February 13, 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
• March 1, 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
• March 10, 1769 – Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist (d. 1840)
• March 23, 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
• March 29, 1769 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
• April 5, 1769 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1839)
• April 13, 1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
• April 29, 1769 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
• May 1, 1769 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
• May 6, 1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
• May 20, 1769 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
• August 15, 1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-born French military officer and Emperor of France (d. 1821)
• August 23, 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
• September 5, 1769 – John Shortland, English naval officer (d. 1810)
• September 14, 1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
• October 6, 1769 – Sir Isaac Brock, British soldier (d. 1812)
• October 7, 1769 – Solomon Sibley, American politician and former Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan Territory (d. 1846)

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