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 various calendars Gregorian calendar 1770 MDCCLXX Ab urbe condita 2523 Armenian calendar 1219 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԹ Assyrian calendar 6520 Balinese saka calendar 1691–1692 Bengali calendar 1177 Berber calendar 2720 British Regnal year 10 Geo. 3 – 11 Geo. 3 Buddhist calendar 2314 Burmese calendar 1132 Byzantine calendar 7278–7279 Chinese calendar 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4467 or 4260     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4468 or 4261 Coptic calendar 1486–1487 Discordian calendar 2936 Ethiopian calendar 1762–1763 Hebrew calendar 5530–5531 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1826–1827  - Shaka Samvat 1691–1692  - Kali Yuga 4870–4871 Holocene calendar 11770 Igbo calendar 770–771 Iranian calendar 1148–1149 Islamic calendar 1183–1184 Japanese calendar Meiwa 7 (明和７年) Javanese calendar 1695–1696 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4103 Minguo calendar 142 before ROC 民前142年 Nanakshahi calendar 302 Thai solar calendar 2312–2313 Tibetan calendar 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1896 or 1515 or 743     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1897 or 1516 or 744

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 – 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 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)

Deaths

• March 27 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (born 1696)
• August 24 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (born 1752)
• October 18 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (born 1721)
• Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (born 1692)