1770

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).

Events of 1770

January - June

• March 5 - Boston Massacre: 5 Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
• May 14 - Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
• May 16 - 14-year Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).

• May 16 - Fireworks, lit by Eric Engelbrecht, at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire: 132 dead.
• June 3 - Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, which was the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777-1822, United Mexican States 1824-1846, until California Republic.

July - December

• July 1 - Comet Lexell (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth.
• July 5 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
• July 21 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks in the Battle of Kagul.
• August 22 - James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.

Undated

• Falkland Crisis (1770)
• Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.
• Joseph Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's Conjecture.

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)
• 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.

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, 1st to die at 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).
• Martin Meytens, painter (b. 1770).

See also Category: 1770 deaths.

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