Timeline May 1779

Events in May 1779 4

• 1714 – 1779 John Winthrop (1714-1779) Died 3 May 1779, aged 64 John Winthrop was an American astronomer and mathematician who taught at Harvard College for four decades. He observed the transits of Venus and studied earthquakes and comets. He was among the most respected scientists in colonial America.
• 1779 Treaty of Teschen Ends the War of the Bavarian Succession Austria and Prussia signed the Treaty of Teschen, with France and Russia mediating, to end the War of the Bavarian Succession. Austria gave up its claim to most of Bavaria and received only the Innviertel. Russia became a guarantor of the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1779 Premiere of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride Opera opens at the Paris Opéra Christoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. It was a major success and is widely regarded as the high point of Gluck's reform of opera. It ended the Paris rivalry between Gluck's supporters and those of Niccolò Piccinni in Gluck's favour.
• 1779 – 1852 Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Died 25 February 1852, aged 72 Thomas Moore was Ireland's leading Romantic poet and songwriter, best known for the collection Irish Melodies and songs such as "The Minstrel Boy". He died at his cottage in Wiltshire, England.