1770

This article is about the year 1770. For the village in Queensland, see Seventeen Seventy, Queensland. For the mummy, see 1770 (mummy). For 1967 JR, the asteroid numbered 1770, see 1770 Schlesinger. For other uses, see 1770 (disambiguation).

For the highway, see Kentucky Route 1770. For the year BCE, see 1770 BC.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s 1750s 1760s – 1770s – 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years:	1767 1768 1769 – 1770 – 1771 1772 1773

1770 by topic:
Arts and Sciences
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries
Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1770 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1770 MDCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2523
Armenian calendar	1219 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6520
Bengali calendar	1177
Berber calendar	2720
British Regnal year	10 Geo. 3 – 11 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2314
Burmese calendar	1132
Byzantine calendar	7278–7279
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4466 or 4406 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4467 or 4407
Coptic calendar	1486–1487
Discordian calendar	2936
Ethiopian calendar	1762–1763
Hebrew calendar	5530–5531
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1826–1827
- Shaka Samvat	1692–1693
- Kali Yuga	4871–4872
Holocene calendar	11770
Igbo calendar	770–771
Iranian calendar	1148–1149
Islamic calendar	1183–1184
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 7 (明和７年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4103
Minguo calendar	142 before ROC 民前142年
Thai solar calendar	2312–2313

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1770 (MDCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1770th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 770th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1770s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1770 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

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: Eleven Americans are shot, five fatally, by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
March 26 – First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard HMS Endeavour complete the circumnavigation of New Zealand.
April 18 (April 19 by Cook's log)^[1] 18:00 – First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
April 20 – Georgian king Erekle II defeats the Ottoman forces in the battle of Aspindza, despite being abandoned by an ally, Russian General Totleben.
April 29 – First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook drops anchor on HMS Endeavour in a wide bay about 16 km (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place Botany Bay on May 7.
May 7 – Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
May 16
- Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes King Louis XVI of France).
- Fireworks lit by Eric Engelbrecht at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire, killing 132 people.

June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777–1822, United Mexican States 1824–1846, until the California Republic.
June 9 – Falklands Crisis (1770): Some 1600 Spanish marines, sent by the Spanish governor of Buenos Aires in five frigates, seize Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands. The small British force present promptly surrenders.^[2]
June 11 – First voyage of James Cook: HMS Endeavour grounds on the Great Barrier Reef.

July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 2184129 km, the closest approach by a comet in recorded history.^[3]
July 5 – Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga: The Russian Empire defeats the Ottoman Empire in both battles.
August 1 (July 21 in Julian Calendar) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) – Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks.
August 22 (August 23 by Cook's log) – First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook determines that New Holland (Australia) is not contiguous with New Guinea and claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.