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1770 (MDCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events
- 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 old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).
- May 16 - Fireworks at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire – 800 dead.
- June 3 - Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, which was the capital of California from 1777-1849.
- 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 claimed for Great Britain the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia).
Unknown dates
- 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 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)
- 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 17 - (baptized) 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)
- Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696)
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