1779 Calendar

January 11, 1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.

March 3, 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.

May 13, 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).

June 1, 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.

June 16, 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.

July 6, 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

July 16, 1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

September 16, 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

September 28, 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

October 4, 1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.

January 1, 1779 – William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)

January 5, 1779 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)

March 2, 1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)

March 6, 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)

August 1, 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)

August 20, 1779 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)

September 18, 1779 – Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)

November 27, 1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)

December 12, 1779 – Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)