1779

1779 (MDCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1779th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 779th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1779, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1776 1777 1778 – 1779 – 1780 1781 1782

1779 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1779 MDCCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2532
Armenian calendar	1228 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6529
Balinese saka calendar	1700–1701
Bengali calendar	1186
Berber calendar	2729
British Regnal year	19 Geo. 3 – 20 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2323
Burmese calendar	1141
Byzantine calendar	7287–7288
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4475 or 4415     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4476 or 4416
Coptic calendar	1495–1496
Discordian calendar	2945
Ethiopian calendar	1771–1772
Hebrew calendar	5539–5540
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1835–1836
- Shaka Samvat	1700–1701
- Kali Yuga	4879–4880
Holocene calendar	11779
Igbo calendar	779–780
Iranian calendar	1157–1158
Islamic calendar	1192–1193
Japanese calendar	An'ei 8 (安永８年)
Javanese calendar	1704–1705
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4112
Minguo calendar	133 before ROC 民前133年
Nanakshahi calendar	311
Thai solar calendar	2321–2322
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1905 or 1524 or 752     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1906 or 1525 or 753

Births

• July 15 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, writer, and poet (d. 1863)
• August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)