1770
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1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for 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 in the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire – 800 dead
- July 1 – 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.
- Joseph Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's Conjecture.
Births
- March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
- April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- April 30 – David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
- 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)
Deaths
- February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692)
- March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696)
- May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
- August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752)
- October 18 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
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