1770
Published on Saturday, March 3rd 2007. Edited by Fat Hipbedjet, Joplin, United States.
Centuries: 17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1767 1768 1769 – 1770 – 1771 1772 1773
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 7 – 14-year Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
- May 16 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).
July 5: Battle of Chesma, by Ivan Aivazovsky.
- 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
1770 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1770 MDCCLXX
Ab urbe condita 2523
Armenian calendar 1219 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar -74 – -73
Berber calendar 2720
Buddhist calendar 2314
Burmese calendar 1132
Chinese calendar 4406/4466-12-5 (己丑年十二月初五日)
— to —
4407/4467-11-15 (庚寅年十一月十五日)
Coptic calendar 1486 – 1487
Ethiopian calendar 1762 – 1763
Hebrew calendar 5530 – 5531
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1825 – 1826
- Shaka Samvat 1692 – 1693
- Kali Yuga 4871 – 4872
Holocene calendar 11770
Iranian calendar 1148 – 1149
Islamic calendar 1183 – 1184
Japanese calendar Meiwa 7 (明和7年)
Korean calendar 4103
Thai solar calendar 2313
- 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)
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).
Months and days of the year
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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