Year by year · 18th century

1770

1770 in world history: 6 events, 8 births, 7 deaths, 1 work, 1 state founded and 1 that came to an end. 1,292 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 5 March

    British soldiers kill five in the Boston Massacre

    Soldiers fired into a crowd taunting them in King Street, killing five men, including Crispus Attucks. Paul Revere's engraving of the scene became powerful propaganda against British rule.

    Boston

  2. 29 April

    James Cook lands at Botany Bay

    The crew of HMS Endeavour made the first recorded European landing on Australia's east coast, meeting resistance from Gweagal men. The bay was named for the plants collected by Joseph Banks.

    Australia

  3. 16 May

    Marie Antoinette marries the future Louis XVI

    The fourteen-year-old Austrian archduchess married the French dauphin at Versailles, sealing an alliance between Habsburgs and Bourbons. Both were guillotined during the Revolution.

    Versailles

  4. Revolt

    Orlov revolt

    The Orlov revolt was a Greek uprising in the Peloponnese in 1770, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, encouraged by the Russian brothers Alexei and Fyodor Orlov, who landed with a small force.

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In the profiles

  • NahuatlA royal decree of Charles III calls for Spanish to replace the Indigenous languages of the empire

Wars and longer events

Born in 1770 8

Died in 1770 7

Works 1

States founded 1

States that came to an end 1

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