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1769 Calendar

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•  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.

•  January 10, 1769 – Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
•  February 6, 1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (d. 1862)
•  February 13, 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (d. 1844)
•  March 10, 1769 – Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist (d. 1840)
•  March 23, 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
•  March 29, 1769 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
•  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)
•  August 23, 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)