1770 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1770?
- March 5, 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
- April 19, 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
- April 20, 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
- April 29, 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- May 16, 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- May 26, 1770 – The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- June 11, 1770 – Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- June 19, 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
- July 1, 1770 – Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
- July 5, 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- July 7, 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
- August 21, 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- August 22, 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
- November 14, 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
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