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This page relates to the year 1769 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

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America

Africa

Oceania

  • April 13rd: James Cook, lieutenant on board the Endeavor , unloads with Tahiti.
    • James Cook undertakes on a 1768 its first great journey in the southern Pacific. It accompanies, by the Cape Horn, of the British astronomers who will observe with Tahiti, island just discovered, the Transit of Venus in front of the Sun the June 3rd 1769.
  • October 6th: James Cook unloads in New Zealand where it takes the reading of 3  860 km of coasts. Although it did not have Chronomètre during this voyage and that it thus could not determine longitude in the absolute, it carries out coastal charts of New Zealand of such a precision that they will be used until the 19th century. It sails round the two islands and crosses the strait which separates them (today the Détroit of Cook), proving thus that they did not constitute the southernmost point of a wider continent.

Asia

  • April: Peace enters the sultan of the Mysore Haidar Alî and the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. End of the first war of Mysore.

  • Famine with the Bengal: 7 to 10 million victims.
  • the Shintoïsme becomes the religion of State to the Japan.
  • the Burma becomes a Chinese dependence.
  • the Gurkha achêvent the conquest of the Nepal.

Europe

France

  • April 22nd: The countess of Barry becomes the official mistress of Louis XV, king de France. It is submitted to the Court, with the scandal of the choiseulists. She exerts on the king a strong influence.
  • August: Suspension then liquidation of the privilege of the Company of the Indies.

  • December 22nd: Joseph Marie Terray (1715 - 1778) is named General inspector of finances (fine in 1774). It increases the lease of the stations, realizes savings by lowering the interest been used for the shareholders, reduced the pensions and sells to the officers revalorizations of pledges, increases the product of the rights of mortgage (creation of the registrars of mortgages), perpetuates or prolongs the various ones twentieth and tries to make their plate more equitable by creating schools for the training of the controllers of the Twentieth. It improves the profitability of Parisian capitation thanks to a census of the rents of the capital. It weighs down the weight of the tariffs of the farms (10%), whose income increases by 15% of 1768 with 1774.

Religion

  • May 19th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Clement XIV (fine in 1775).
  • the pontifical documents are published in Toscane only after the agreement of the government.

Art & culture

See also: 1769 with the theater, 1769 in literature

  • First voyage of Mozart in Italy.

  • Severe Septime making of the reproaches with Caracalla , fabric of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
  • the Letter , fabric of Fragonard.

Science & technology

  • May: The British engineer James Watt deposits the patent of a separate Condenseur which improves the performances of the atmospheric machine of Newcomen (1711). A regulating system maintains the pressure constant. Watt will improve its machine to adapt it to industry (1769 - 1785).

Economy & company

  • Restriction of the right of Tuscan Mortmain in .
  • Culture of potato in Hungary.
  • Creation of the paper money in Russia.

Births in 1769

Death in 1769

Be-X-old: 1769 Map-bms: 1769 Simple: 1769 Zh-yue: 1769 年

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