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Year 1769 (MDCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1769
Undated
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (see drawing) in France.
- Famine in Bengal kills 10 million people, a third of the population, in the worst natural disaster in human history (in terms of lives lost).
- The Maharajah of Mysore forces the British to agree a treaty of mutual assistance in view of the famine, but the British East India Company increases its demands on the Bengali people to keep profits up.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 10 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
- March 1 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
- March 10 - Joseph Williamson, philanthropist and builder of the Williamson's tunnels (d. 1840)
- March 23 - William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
- March 29 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
- April 3 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
- April 9 - Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres, German lepidopterist (d. 1809)
- April 11 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)
- April 13 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
- May 1 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1852)
- May 6 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
- June 18 - Viscount Castlereagh, British statesman, diplomat, and soldier (d. 1822)
- August 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
- September 14 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1843)
- October 6 - Isaac Brock, British general and administrator (d. 1812)
- December 13 - James Scarlett Abinger, English judge (d. 1844)
- date unknown - James Dadford, English canal engineer
- See also Category: 1769 births.
Deaths
- February 2 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
- March 28 - Johann Friedrich Endersch, cartographer (b. 1705)
- April 20 - Chief Pontiac, Ottawa chief (murdered) (b. c. 1719)
- June 1 - Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
- August 2 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
- August 29 - Edmond Hoyle, English game expert (b. 1672)
- September 22 - Antonio Genovesi, philosopher (b. 1712)
- November 23 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
- November 27 - Kamo no Mabuchi, Japanese poet and philologist (b. 1697)
- December 13 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
- December 30 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
- date unknown - Suramphaa - King of Assam
- See also Category: 1769 deaths.
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