1770

Events of 1770

January 1 - Foundation of Fort George, Bombay laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
March 5 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
April 19 - British explorer Captain James Cook, and his crew aboard the Endeavour, become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
May 7 - Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
May 16 - Marie Antoinette marries 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, killing 132 people.
June 3 - Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777-1822, United Mexican States 1824-1846, until the 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, first to die in 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)