1770

Years: 1767 1768 1769 - 1770 - 1771 1772 1773
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1770 in art 1770 in literature 1770 in music 1770 in science List of state leaders in 1770 List of religious leaders in 1770

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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 to French Court.
May 16 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France). (marriage is consummated four years later)
May 16 ÃÂ Fireworks in the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire ÃÂ 800 dead
July 1 ÃÂ Lexell Comet passes the Earth
August 22 - James Cook claimed for Great Britain the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia)
Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks

March 20 - Friedrich HÃÂ¶lderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist
April 7 - William Wordsworth, English poet (+ 1850)
April 30 - David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer, the first European to explore the Columbia River from source to mouth.
May 22 - Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, third daughter of King George III
August 3 - King Frederick William III of Prussia
August 27 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher.
December 17 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (baptized)