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1769 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1769th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 769th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of ...
1769 Austrian annexation of Spis [2] Count Lymar presented to Frederick the Great the plan of a partition of Poland. [3] In February 1769, Austria occupied the county of Zips. [4] In August 1769, a meeting was held between Joseph II and Frederick the Great at Neisse. Austria received back Dalmatia in accordance with the Treaty of Campo-Formio. [5]
29 April – James Watt is granted a British patent for "A method of lessening the consumption of steam in steam engines" – the separate condenser, [1] a key improvement (first devised by Watt in 1765 in Glasgow) which stimulates the Industrial Revolution. [2]
Gordon's London dry gin first produced. [9]Elizabeth Raffald's cookery book The Experienced English Housekeeper, published in Manchester, contains a recipe for "Bride Cake" covered in marzipan and royal icing that is recognisable as a modern wedding cake [10] and the earliest printed recipe for crumpet.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1769. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1769 Ship State Description Ann & Betty Great Britain The ship foundered off Ramsgate, Kent. [2]Duchess of Leinster Ireland The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Waterford with some loss of life.
James Alexander (1769–1848) John Hensleigh Allen; Ignacio Allende; George Waters Allsopp; David Alopaeus; Willis Alston; William Anderson (missionary) Charles Anguish; Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen; George Anson (British Army officer, born 1769) Alexander Anstruther (judge) John T. Apthorp; Aleksey Arakcheyev; Joseph Charles ...
16 March – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe (she returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships).