February 13 » Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
February 19 » The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
May 9 » Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
October 28 » The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.
Day of death October 22, 1779
The temperature on October 22, 1779 was about 13.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
May 13 » War of the 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 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
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