1770 (place)

• German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
• German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• English poet William Wordsworth.
• Polish statesman and revolutionary figure Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
• American explorer William Clark.
• French poet Sophie Frederike Schubart Merau.
• Italian guitar composer Ferdinando Carulli.
• English architect John Pinch.
• Napoleonic marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet.
• English botanist George Caley.
• English poet James Hogg.
• Dutch illustrator David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville.

• Scottish mathematician James Stirling.
• Methodist evangelist George Whitefield.
• French painter François Boucher.
• Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
• Former British Prime Minister George Grenville.
• Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini.
• English poet Mark Akenside.
• French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet, who thought that Benjamin Franklin had faked his experiments in electricity.
• German keyboard composer Gottlieb Muffat.
• English poet Thomas Chatterton.
• Massachusetts freedman Crispus Attucks and four others (Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick Carr), see below.

• British troops fire on stone-throwing colonists. Five people are killed in what would later be called the Boston Massacre.
• Lord Frederick North becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• Parliament repeals the duties on four of the five items specified in the Townshend Acts, retaining the tax on tea.
• Captain James Cook surveys the East Coast of Australia, landing in Queensland and stopping in Botany Bay, naming the area around it New South Wales.
• The Philadelphia Society of Friends (Quakers) establishes a coeducational "Negro school", open to slaves and free blacks.
• Voltaire writes a letter to Louis Henry Riche in which he states "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions".
• An outbreak of smallpox decimates the Pacific Northwest Indians.
• English chemist Joeph Priestly discovers that a substance from South America called "caoutchouc" could erase lead marks from white paper. He renamed the substance rubber.
• Warren Hastings becomes the first British Governor-General of India.

1769 - 1770 - 1771
How I Made Them - 18th Century