1779

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1776 1777 1778 – 1779 – 1780 1781 1782

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1779 Media

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  July 16: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins as Spain attacks the British

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  Photo #: KN-2779 (color)*Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Transferred from the U.S. Naval Lyceum, 1892.

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  Francis Scott Key

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  Official portrait of Captain James Cook

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  Kazimierz Pułaski

1779 (MDCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1779th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 779th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1779, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Births

• July 15 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, writer, and poet (d. 1863)
• August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)