Year 1770 (MDCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1770 [edit] January–June - January 1 – Foundation of Fort George, Bombay laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
- March 5 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
- April – James Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the bay, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, James Cook calls the place Botany Bay.
- April 19 – British explorer Captain James Cook, and his crew aboard the Endeavour, become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
- May 7 – Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
- May 16 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).
[edit] July–December [edit] Undated
[edit] Births - February 21 – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (d. 1838)
- March 2 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (d. 1826)
- March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
- April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- April 11 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
- April 25 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
- April 30 – David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
- May 10 – Louis Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (d. 1823)
- May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur & politician (d. 1843)
- May 29 – Charles Adams, second son of President John Adams (1735–1826) (d. 1800)
- June 7 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
- June 20 – Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
- August 1 – William Clark, explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d. 1838)
- August 3 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
- August 27 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
- December 15/16 – (baptized December 17) Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- December 18 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (d.1840)
- See also Category: 1770 births.
[edit] Deaths - January 7 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- January 20 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
- February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692)
- March 5 – Crispus Attucks, African-American, first to die in the Boston Massacre (b. 1723)
- March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696)
- April 25 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
- May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
- June 23 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
- July 27 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
- August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752)
- September 30 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
- September 30 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
- October 18 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
- November 9 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
- November 13 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
- November 24 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
- December 5 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
- October 14 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696)
- See also Category: 1770 deaths.
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