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Battle of Flamborough Head. The Battle of Flamborough Head was a naval battle that took place on 23 September 1779 in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between a combined Franco-American squadron, led by Continental Navy officer John Paul Jones, and two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy.
The Mount Edziza volcanic complex (MEVC) is a group of volcanoes and associated lava flows in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Located on the Tahltan Highland, the MEVC has a broad, steep-sided lava plateau; its highest summit is 2,786 metres (9,140 feet). Its volcanoes formed over the last 7.5 million years during five cycles of magmatic ...
1707 ( MDCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1707th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 707th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1700s decade.
October 20 – 23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the Danish city's history) burns. November 25 – In India, the Maratha Empire 's army invades the Mughal Empire 's Malwa province, crossing the Narmada River. On November 29, the two armies clash at the Battle of Amjhira; the Maratha troops, commanded by General Chimaji Appa ...
Pintura de Dominic Serres. La Acción del 14 de septiembre de 1779 fue un combate naval menor que se produjo el 14 de septiembre de 1779, frente a las Azores entre la fragata de la Armada Real HMS Pearl al mando de George Montagu y la fragata de la Armada Española Santa Mónica al mando de Miguel de Nunes, con la Perla capturando a la Santa ...
14. február – James Cook, britský objaviteľ a výskumník (* 1728) 6. apríl – Tommaso Traetta, taliansky skladateľ (* 1727) 3. máj – John Winthrop, americký astronóm (* 1714) 13. november – Thomas Chippendale, britský výrobca nábytku (* 1718) 1. december – Johann Lucas Kracker, rakúsky freskár a maliar (* 1719) Kategórie ...
The Armada of 1779 was a combined Franco - Spanish naval enterprise intended to divert British military assets, primarily of the Royal Navy, from other war theatres by invading the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. This action was a part of the wider Anglo-French War (1778–1783). The proposed plan was to seize ...
