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1769

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s

Years: 1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 - 1769 - 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774

Events

Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen exhibts the Turk.
May 14 Spanish missionaries reach San Diego and begin the settlement of California

Births

February 9 - Susette Gontard[?], girl-friend of poet Friedrich Hölderlin[?] (+ 1802)
March 23 -William Smith,English geologist and cartographer
May 1 - Arthur Wellesley, later 1st Duke of Wellington and nemesis of Napoleon Bonaparte
August 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte, future Emperor of France
September 14 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal German jurist

Deaths

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