Year (''' MDCCLXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered wagon or Automobile (''see drawing'') in France .
- Famine in Bengal kills 10 million people, a third of the population, in the worst natural disaster in human history (in terms of lives lost).
- The Maharajah Of Mysore forces the British to agree a treaty of mutual assistance in view of the famine, but the British East India Company increases its demands on the Bengali people to keep profits up.
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- January 10 - Michel Ney , French marshal (died 1815 )
- March 1 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers , French general (died 1796 )
- March 10 - Joseph Williamson , philanthropist and builder of the Williamson's Tunnels (died 1840 )
- March 23 - William Smith , English geologist and cartographer (died 1839 )
- March 29 - Nicolas Jean De Dieu Soult , French marshal (died 1851 )
- April 3 - Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff , Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (died 1835 )
- April 11 - Jean Lannes , French marshal (died 1809 )
- April 13 - Thomas Lawrence , English painter (died 1830 )
- May 1 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington , British general and Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (died 1852 )
- May 6 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (died 1824 )
- June 18 - Viscount Castlereagh , British statesman, diplomat, and soldier (died 1822 )
- August 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte , Emperor of the French (died 1821 )
- September 14 - Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal , German jurist (died 1843 )
- October 6 - Isaac Brock , British general and administrator (died 1812 )
- December 13 - James Scarlett Abinger , English judge (died 1844 )
- ''date unknown'' - James Dadford , English canal engineer
: ''See also .''
- February 2 - Pope Clement XIII (born 1693 )
- March 28 - Johann Friedrich Endersch , cartographer (born 1705 )
- April 20 - Chief Pontiac , Ottawa chief (murdered) (born c. 1719 )
- June 1 - Edward Holyoke , American President of Harvard University (born 1689 )
- August 2 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl Of Winchilsea , English politician (born 1689 )
- August 29 - Edmond Hoyle , English game expert (born 1672 )
- September 22 - Antonio Genovesi , philosopher (born 1712 )
- November 23 - Constantine Mavrocordatos , Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (born 1711 )
- November 27 - Kamo No Mabuchi , poet and philologist (born 1697 )
- December 13 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , German poet (born 1715 )
- December 30 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe , Austrian soldier (born 1685 )
- ''date unknown'' - Suramphaa - King of Assam
: ''See also .''
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