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  • Corsica, Kingdom of France
    1769
    Napoleon

    Republic of Genoa transferred Corsica to France

    Corsica, Kingdom of France
    1769

    Napoleon was born the same year the Republic of Genoa, a former commune of Italy, transferred Corsica to France.




  • Kavala, Ottoman Empire (Present-Day Kavala, Greece)
    Saturday Mar 4, 1769
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Birth

    Kavala, Ottoman Empire (Present-Day Kavala, Greece)
    Saturday Mar 4, 1769

    Muhammad Ali was born in Kavala, in Macedonia, Rumeli Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, today a city in Greece, to an Albanian family from Korça. He was the second son of Albanian tobacco and shipping merchant named Ibrahim Agha, who also served as an Ottoman commander of a small unit in Kavala.




  • Salzburg, Austria
    1769
    Mozart

    La finta semplice

    Salzburg, Austria
    1769

    Leopold attempted to set his son up as an opera composer. He was working on a proposed order from Emperor Joseph II that the young boy should write an opera, rival musicians were not eager for a preteen composer to upstage himself. There were reports that the opera was a sham — that the work was really composed by Leopold, not Wolfgang. The premiere was repeatedly postponed. Finally, Leopold gave up and took his son back to Salzburg, and the opera, where the score was first performed the following year.




  • Ajaccio, Corsica, Kingdom of France
    Tuesday Aug 15, 1769
    Napoleon

    Birth

    Ajaccio, Corsica, Kingdom of France
    Tuesday Aug 15, 1769

    Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769. His parents Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino maintained an ancestral home called "Casa Buonaparte" in Ajaccio. Napoleon was their fourth child and third son. A boy and girl were born first but died in infancy.




  • Salzburg, Austria
    Monday Nov 27, 1769
    Mozart

    Receiving the post of Konzertmeister

    Salzburg, Austria
    Monday Nov 27, 1769

    The world of Mozart was evolving, very dramatically. He was assigned the Konzertmeister post to court in Salzburg. Though the position came without pay, it's hard to overestimate the importance of this opportunity. This was a 13-year-old boy given the job as a composer and conductor to the archbishop-prince of one of the Holy Roman Empire 's main principalities.




  • Copenhagen
    Monday Apr 3, 1769

    Christian Bernstorff Birth

    Copenhagen
    Monday Apr 3, 1769

    Christian Gnther von Bernstorff was born in Copenhagen, in 1769.




  • Bristol
    Thursday Apr 13, 1769

    Thomas Lawrence Birth

    Bristol
    Thursday Apr 13, 1769

    The portrait painter Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol, England in 1769.


  • Tahiti
    Thursday Apr 13, 1769

    First voyage of James Cook (1769)

    Tahiti
    Thursday Apr 13, 1769

    The British ship, commanded by James Cook, arrives in Matavia Bay, Tahiti, with a botanist on board.


  • Churchill
    Thursday Mar 23, 1769

    William Smith created the first detailed nationwide geological map

    Churchill
    Thursday Mar 23, 1769

    The first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) was created by William Smith, who was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire.


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