1770

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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

July 5: Battle of Chesma, by Ivan Aivazovsky.
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).



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