1770

Events of 1770

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 Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).

May 16 - Fireworks, lit by Eric Engelbrecht, at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire: 132 dead.
June 3 - Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, which was the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777-1822, United Mexican States 1824-1846, until California Republic.

August 1 - William Clark, explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d. 1838)
August 3 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
August 27 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
December 15/16 - (baptized December 17) Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
December 18 - Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (d.1840)

January 7 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695).
January 20 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722).
February 26 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692).
March 5 - Crispus Attucks, African-American, 1st to die at the Boston Massacre (b. 1723).
March 27 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696).
April 25 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700).
May 30 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703).
June 23 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721).
July 27 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693).
August 24 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752).
September 30 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat.
September 30 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714).
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 5 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692).
October 14 - Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696).
Martin Meytens, painter (b. 1770).