1770

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); 4466 or 4406; — to —; 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger); 4467 or 4407
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ;
Decades:	1750s ; 1760s ; 1770s ; 1780s ; 1790s ;
Years:	1767 ; 1768 ; 1769 ; 1770 ; 1771 ; 1772 ; 1773 ;

Last updated September 09, 2019

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1770 ( MDCCLXX ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1770th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 770th year of the 2nd millennium , the 70th year of the 18th century , and the 1st year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1770, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value:

A common year is a calendar year with 365 days, as distinguished from a leap year, which has 366. More generally, a common year is one without intercalation. The Gregorian calendar,, employs both common years and leap years to keep the calendar aligned with the tropical year, which does not contain an exact number of days.

A common year starting on Monday is any non-leap year that begins on Monday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is G. The most recent year of such kind was 2018 and the next one will be 2029 in the Gregorian calendar, or likewise, 2013, 2019, and 2030 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 1900, was also a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. See below for more. Any common year that starts on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday has two Friday the 13ths. This common year of this type contains two Friday the 13ths in April and July. Leap years starting on Sunday share this characteristic, but also have another in January.

Events

January– March

January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virginia is destroyed by fire, along with most of his books.^[1]
February 14 – Scottish explorer James Bruce arrives at Gondar, capital of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and is received by the Emperor Tekle Haymanot II and Ras Mikael Sehul.^[2]
February 22 – Christopher Seider, an 11-year-old boy in Boston at the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, is shot and killed by a colonial official, Ebenezer Richardson. The funeral sets off anti-British protests that lead to the massacre days later.^[3]
March 5 – Boston Massacre: Eleven American men are shot (five fatally) by British troops, in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
March 26 – First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard HMS Endeavour complete the circumnavigation of New Zealand.

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year. This day is known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. It is also the first day of the first quarter of the year and the first half of the year.

Fort George was an extension to the fortified walls of Bombay built in 1769; it was in the present-day Fort area, to the east of the site of the former Dongri Fort. The hill on which the Dongri fort stood was razed, and in its place Fort George was built. In 1862, the fort was demolished.

The Dongri Fort or the Dongri Hill Fort, locally known as the Irmitri Fort, is a fort in Mumbai, India. It is located in the Dongri area. It came under Maratha rule in 1739. Since then the locals and the church have been looking after the maintenance of the Fort, which was once repaired. Every year, during the month of October, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima is celebrated there. Many People from far off villages come to offer their prayers there. One can take a 360 degree view of the surroundings from this fort, with the Arabian sea at the West, the Vasai Fort at the North, the Borivali National Park at the East, and the Essel World and Water Kingdom at the South.

April–June

April 12 – The Townshend Acts were repealed by Britain's Parliament by the efforts of Prime Minister Frederick North, with the exception of the increased duties on imported tea. The American colonists, in turn, stopped their embargo on British imports.^[4]
April 18 (April 19 by Cook's log)^[5] 18:00 – First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
April 20 – Battle of Aspindza: Georgian king Erekle II defeats the Ottoman forces, despite being abandoned by an ally, Russian General Totleben.
April 29 – First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook drops anchor on HMS Endeavour in a wide bay, about 16 km (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place Botany Bay on May 7.
May 7 – Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
May 16 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes King Louis XVI of France).
May 20 – A stampede, at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris, kills more than a hundred people.^[6]
June 3 –
- Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777–1822, United Mexican States 1824–1846, until the California Republic.
- The 7.5 M_w Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more.
Saint Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M., was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988, in the Vatican City. Pope Francis canonised him on September 23, 2015, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., during his first visit to the United States. His missionary efforts earned him the title of Apostle of California.
Monterey is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it was the capital of Alta California under both Spain and Mexico. During this period, Monterey hosted California's first theater, public building, public library, publicly funded school, printing press, and newspaper. It was also originally the only port of entry for all taxable goods in California. In 1846 during the Mexican–American War, the United States flag was raised over the Customs House. After California was ceded to the U.S. after the war, Monterey hosted California's first constitutional convention in 1849.
Alta California, known sometimes unofficially as Nueva California, California Septentrional, California del Norte or California Superior, began in 1804 as a province of New Spain. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias, but was split off into a separate province in 1804. Following the Mexican War of Independence, it became a territory of Mexico in April 1822 and was renamed "Alta California" in 1824. The claimed territory included all of the modern US states of California, Nevada and Utah, and parts of Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. In the 1836 Siete Leyes government reorganization, the two Californias were once again combined - into a single departamento. That change was undone in 1846, but rendered moot by U.S. military occupation of California in the Mexican-American War.
June 9 – Falklands Crisis (1770): Some 1,600 Spanish marines, sent by the Spanish governor of Buenos Aires in five frigates, seize Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands. The small British force present promptly surrenders.^[7]
June 11 – First voyage of James Cook: HMS Endeavour grounds on the Great Barrier Reef.

April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 263 days remain until the end of the year.

The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly as to which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five are often listed:

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford,, better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. He also held a number of other cabinet posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

July– September

July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 2184129 km, the closest approach by a comet in recorded history.^[8]
July 5 – Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga: The Russian Empire defeats the Ottoman Empire in both battles. When the news of the defeat reaches the Ottoman city of Smyrna (July 8), the crowd attack the Greek community of the city (perceived as favourable to the Russian cause) and kills an estimated 200 Greeks and three Western Europeans (although some reports estimate the number of victims at 3,000 or even 5,000 including "3 or 4 thousands who die due to the fright").^[9]^[10]
August 1 (July 21 O.S.) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) – Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks.
August 22 (August 23 by Cook's log) – First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook determines that New Holland (Australia) is not contiguous with New Guinea, and claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.
September 24 – In the Hillsborough, North Carolina, the Regulator Movement riots against local authorities.^[11]

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 183 days remain until the end of the year.

D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June 1770. It is notable for having passed closer to Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of only 0.015 astronomical units. The comet has not been seen since 1770 and is considered a lost comet.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in 365.26 days, a period known as an Earth year. During this time, Earth rotates about its axis about 366.26 times.

October–December

October 11 – Phillis Wheatley becomes the first African American woman to have her work published, after having written a poetic elegy to the late Reverend George Whitefield.^[12]
November 14 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
December 7 – King Louis XV of France issues the "Edict of December", dismissing the rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces.^[13]^[14]
December 24 – France's Secretary of the Navy, César Gabriel de Choiseul, is fired from his position by the King.^[15]

October 11 is the 284th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 81 days remain until the end of the year.

Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.

In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead. The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy notes:

For all of its pervasiveness, however, the ‘elegy’ remains remarkably ill-defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead.

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Johann Gottfried Herder meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Strasbourg.
Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's Conjecture.
The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is produced in Neuchâtel.
The last Cuman who speaks the Cumanian language (István Varró) dies in Hungary.

Births

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 3 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
April 8 – John Campbell, Australian public servant, politician (d. 1830)
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)
May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur, politician (d. 1843)
May 27 – Ignaz Döllinger, German anatomist, physiologist (d. 1841)
May 29 – Charles Adams, second son of President John Adams (1735–1826) (d. 1800)
June 1 – Friedrich Laun, German author (d. 1849)

June 3 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, general in the Independence War (d. 1820)
June 4 – Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, Swedish countess, poet and salon holder (d. 1835)
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, American explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d. 1838)
August 3 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
August 18 – Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, German scholar (d. 1825)

August 27 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
October 10 – Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Baltic German explorer who led the First Russian circumnavigation (d. 1846)
October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English painter (d. 1845)
November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish-Icelandic sculptor (d. 1844)

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December 17 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German classical composer (d. 1827)
December 18 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (d. 1840)
Date unknown – Sarah Guppy, English inventor (d. 1852)

Deaths

January 7 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (b. 1694)
January 20 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
January 27 – Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl, 18th-century politician (b. 1712)
January 30 – Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (b. 1712)
January 27 – Philippe Macquer, French historian (b. 1720)
February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer, violinist (b. 1692)
March 5 – Crispus Attucks, African-American dockworker, first to die in the Boston Massacre (b. 1723)

March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696)
April 27 – José Solís Folch de Cardona, Spanish colonial governor (b. 1716)
April 25 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot, physicist (b. 1700)
May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
June 22 – Philip Carteret Webb, English barrister (b. 1702)
June 23 – Mark Akenside, English poet, physician (b. 1721)
July 17 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (b. 1684)
July 21 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish agronomist (b. 1698)
July 27 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
August 15 – Edward Antill (colonial politician), American winemaker (b. 1701)
August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752)
September 2 – Hongzhou, Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1712)
September 9 – Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German anatomist (b. 1697)
September 22 – Ignatius of Santhià, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1686)

September 30
- George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
- Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
October 14 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696)
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 4 – John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, Irish politician (b. 1711)
December 5 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
December 6 – Neri Maria Corsini, Italian Catholic priest and cardinal (b. 1685)

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Events from the year 1770 in Great Britain.

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