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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
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* [[January 11]] – British troops surrender to the [[Marathas]] in [[Battle of Wadgaon|Wadgaon]], India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since [[1773]].
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* January 11 – [[Ching-Thang Khomba]] is crowned [[List of Meitei kings|King]] of [[Manipur]].
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* [[January 22]] – [[American Revolutionary War]] – [[Claudius Smith]] is hanged at [[Goshen (village), New York|Goshen]], [[Orange County, New York]] for supposed acts of "terrorism"{{clarify}} upon the people of the surrounding communities.
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* [[February 12]] – Lieutenant Colonel [[Francisco Bouligny]] arrives with [[Málaga|Malagueño]] colonists at [[Bayou Teche]], to establish the city of [[New Iberia, Louisiana]].
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* [[February 14]] – Captain [[James Cook]] is killed on the [[Hawaiian Islands|Sandwich Islands]], on his third voyage.
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* [[March 10]] – The [[Treaty of Aynalıkavak]] is signed between [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkey]] and the [[Russian Empire]], regarding the [[Crimean Khanate]].
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=== April–June ===
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* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Spain]] and [[France]] secretly sign the [[Treaty of Aranjuez (1779)|Convention of Aranjuez]], with Spain joining an alliance against Great Britain in return for France's pledge to recover all Spanish territory lost to the British.<ref>Robert W. Smith, ''Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775-1815'' (Potomac Books, 2012)</ref>
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* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] &ndash; Russian and French mediators at the [[Congress of Teschen]] negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives a part of the Bavarian territory (the [[Innviertel]]), and relinquishes the rest.
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* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; [[Benedict Arnold]] is [[court-martial]]ed for [[malfeasance]], in his treatment of government property.
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* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on Britain.
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* [[June 21]] &ndash; King [[Charles III of Spain]] issues a declaration of war against Great Britain.<ref>William Nester, ''The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic'' (Potomac Books, 2011) p53</ref>
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=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; United States forces, led by General [[Anthony Wayne]], capture [[Stony Point, New York]] from British troops.
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* July 16 &ndash; [[Declaratory Rescript of the Illyrian Nation]] issued in order to regulate organization of [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in [[Habsburg Monarchy]].
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* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Tekle Giyorgis I]] begins the first of his five reigns as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
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* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Minisink]]: The Goshen Militia is destroyed by [[Joseph Brant]]'s forces.
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* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]] &ndash; American forces, led by Commodore [[Dudley Saltonstall]], launch the [[Penobscot Expedition]] in what is now [[Castine, Maine|Castine]], Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U.S. history (until [[Pearl Harbor]]).
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* [[July]] &ndash; The [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]] (fourteenth and last military siege) begins. This is an action by French and Spanish forces to wrest control of [[Gibraltar]] from the established British garrison. The garrison, led by [[George Augustus Eliott]] (later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar), survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies.
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* [[September]]
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** [[Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)|Battle of Baton Rouge]] &ndash; Spanish troops under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] capture the city from the British.
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** The [[Great Siege of Gibraltar]] starts, the longest [[siege]] endured by the [[British Armed Forces]].
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=== October&ndash;December ===
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* [[October 1]] &ndash; The city of [[Tampere]], [[Finland]] (belonging to [[Sweden]] at this time) is founded by King [[Gustav III of Sweden]].
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* [[October 4]] &ndash; The Fort Wilson Riot against [[James Wilson (justice)|James Wilson]] and others in [[Philadelphia]] takes place.
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* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais]] marries [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Joséphine Tascher]].
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* [[December 25]] &ndash; Fort Nashborough (later to become [[Nashville, Tennessee]]) is founded by [[James Robertson (explorer)|James Robertson]].
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* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Affair of Fielding and Bylandt]]: Following a brief naval engagement between the British and Dutch off the [[Isle of Wight]], the Dutch merchantmen and naval vessels are captured and taken to [[Portsmouth]], England.
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=== Date unknown ===
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* [[Industrial Revolution]] in England:
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** [[The Iron Bridge]] is erected across the [[River Severn]] in [[Shropshire]], the world's first bridge built entirely of [[cast iron]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 </ref> It will open to traffic on January 1, 1781.
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** The [[spinning mule]] is perfected by [[Lancashire]] inventor [[Samuel Crompton]].
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** [[Boulton and Watt]]'s  ''[[Smethwick Engine]]'', now the oldest working engine in the world, is brought into service ([[May]])).
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* The city of [[Tampere]], Finland, is founded.
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* A joint Spanish-Portuguese survey of the [[Amazon basin]] begins to determine the boundary between the colonial possessions in South America; it continues until [[1795]].
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References

  1. Robert W. Smith, Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775-1815 (Potomac Books, 2012)
  2. William Nester, The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic (Potomac Books, 2011) p53
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