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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).
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 ...
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March 22 - Jean-Charles François, French engraver (born 1717); May 11 - Francesco Carlo Rusca, Italian painter (born 1701); May 31 - Francesco Fontebasso, Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice (born 1707)
January 21 – The first of the Letters of Junius criticising the government appears in the Public Advertiser (London). [1] The identity of Junius remains a mystery, but modern-day scholarly consensus favours Philip Francis.
Architects' drawing for Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. Second Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm in Sweden, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed; Blackfriars Bridge in London, designed by Robert Mylne, opens to the public (demolished in the 1860s)
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