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 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 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

March 20 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (d. 1843)
April 7 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 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) (d. 1827)