History
1770
General
Population: 864 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Johannes Ewald (Danish tragedy), Oliver Goldsmith (poetry), Edmund Burke, Kane (as new professor of philosophy at Koningsberg),
"The Massachusetts Spy" first published
Printer and publishers of "Letters of Junis" (1769) tried for seditious libel
Art includes Gainsborough "The Blue Boy"
Music includes Gluck (opera), Handel "Messiah", Haydn, Mozart
Romantic movement in art and literature
- Medicine: English "quack" John Hill introduces method of obtainting specimens for microscopic study
- Science: Leonhard Euler writes introduction to Algebra
Erasmus Darwin starts idea of common descent but due to social pressure removes motto
- Technology: Spinning Jenny patented for textile work
Alexis Duchateau makes life-like false teeth from porcelain
- Deaths: Sculptor Peter Scheemakers, Composer Giuseppe Tartini, Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddle, Sculptor John Michael Rysbrack,
Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Painter François Bougher, Ballerina Marie de Camargo, Artist Suzuki Harunobu, Poet Thomas Chatterton
Africa
- Egypt: Scottish explorer James Bruce discovers source of Blue Nile
- West Africa: Tukolor kingdom gains power in former Songhai region
Asia
- India: Drought and famine
Europe
- General: Famine and pestilence in Bohemia Poland and Russia
- Denmark: FJ Struensee the favorite of Danish Queen Caroline Matilde becomes supreme minister
- France: Dauphin of France marries Marie Antoinette daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
Lafayette inherits large fortune
First public restaurant opens in Paris
- Great Britain: Parliament repeals duties on many items but retains duty on tea
Visiting cards introduced in England
Civil liberties, international free trade, textile machines, and steam power lead to industrial revolution in England
Lord Frederick North becomes Prime Minister
- Greece: Greeks try to overthrow Turks and were aided by Tsarina Catherine the Great (Wanted to overthrow Moslems)
- Holy Roman Empire: Elementary school education reformed in Austria
- Hungary: Opal of 3000 carats found
- Russia: Plague outbreak
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Greek rebellion to overthrow Turkish power
Pacific
- General: Spanish sailors reach Easter Island
- Australia: James Cook discovers Botany Bay - claims Australia for Britain – becomes first European to see kangaroos
General
- Abolition: Height of slave trade
- Crime: British soldiers tried for murder in Boston Massacre - defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr.
- Finance: US economy starts to decline
Townshend Acts repealed – tax on tea imported into North America is kept
- Medicine: Smallpox outbreak
East
- Massachusetts: Boston Massaclre between civilians and troops - three killed including Crispus Attucks and two mortally wounded