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

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

Years: 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789

Events

• January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
• January 14 - The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
• February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
• The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
• Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
• Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
• Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
• Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
• Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania

Births

• January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
• October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant
• November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.

Deaths

• Junipero Serra - priest
• September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
• December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)\n