1769 in France
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Incumbents
Events
- 16 March â Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships Boudeuse and Ãtoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe (she returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships).
- 8 May â Battle of Ponte Novu begins between royal French forces and the native Corsicans.
- 9 May â Battle of Ponte Novu ends, marking the end of the Corsican War and paving the way for French dominance over the island.
- 23 October â Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (or 'automobile').[2]
Culture
- The Concert des Amateurs is founded by François-Joseph Gossec in Paris at the Hôtel de Soubise.
Births
January to June
- 1 January â Marie-Louise Lachapelle, midwife (died 1821)
- 10 January â Michel Ney, Marshal of France (died 1815)
- 31 January â André-Jacques Garnerin, inventor of the frameless parachute (died 1823)
- 1 March â François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, general (died 1796)
- 9 March â Adélaïde Binart, neoclassical painter (died 1832)
- 29 March â Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Marshal General of France and three times Prime Minister of France (died 1851)
- 10 April â Jean Lannes, general (mortally wounded in battle) (died 1809)
- 13 April â Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general (died 1832)
- 21 April â Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont, artillery general (died 1810)
- 25 April â Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer (died 1849 in the United Kingdom)
July to December
- 29 July â Louis-Benoît Picard, playwright (died 1828)
- 15 August â Napoleon Bonaparte, military and political leader (died 1821 in Saint Helena)
- 23 August â Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist (died 1832)
- 10 October â Augustin Alexandre Darthé, Revolutionary (executed 1797)
- 28 December â Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry, poet, novelist, historian and politician (died 1859)
Full date unknown
- Barthelemy Lafon, Louisiana Creole architect, engineer, city planner, surveyor and smuggler (died 1820 in the United States)
Deaths
- 5 April â Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest and architectural theorist (born 1713)
- 1 August â Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, astronomer (born 1722)
- 23 September â Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, astronomer (born 1714)
- 3 November â Diane Adélaïde de Mailly, third of the five de Nesle sisters (born 1713)
