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1767 1768 1769 - 1770 - 1771 1772 1773
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1770 (MDCCLXX) was a Common Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
Events
Births
- February 21 - Georges Mouton , Marshal Of France (d. 1838 )
- March 2 - Louis Gabriel Suchet , Marshal Of France (d. 1826 )
- March 20 - Friedrich Hölderlin , German writer (d. 1843 )
- April 7 - William Wordsworth , English poet (d. 1850 )
- April 25 - Georg Sverdrup , Norwegian philologist (d. 1850 )
- April 30 - David Thompson , English-Canadian explorer (d. 1857 )
- May 10 - Louis Nicolas Davout , Marshal of France (d. 1823 )
- August 1 - William Clark , explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d. 1838 )
- August 3 - King Frederick William III Of Prussia (d. 1840 )
- August 27 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , German philosopher (d. 1831 )
- December 17 - (baptized) Ludwig Van Beethoven , German composer (d. 1827 )
- December 18 - Nicolas Joseph Maison , Marshal of France and Minister of War (d. 1840 )
Deaths
- January 7 - Carl Gustaf Tessin , Swedish politician (b. 1695 )
- January 20 - Charles Yorke , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722 )
- February 26 - Giuseppe Tartini , Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692 )
- March 5 - Crispus Attucks , African-American, 1st to die at the Boston Massacre (b. 1723 )
- March 27 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Venetian artist (b. 1696 )
- April 25 - Jean-Antoine Nollet , French abbot and physicist (b. 1700 )
- May 30 - François Boucher , French painter (b. 1703 )
- June 23 - Mark Akenside , English poet and physician (b. 1721 )
- July 27 - Robert Dinwiddie , British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693 )
- August 24 - Thomas Chatterton , English poet (b. 1752 )
- September 30 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham , English politician and diplomat
- September 30 - George Whitefield , English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714 )
- October 18 - John Manners, Marquess Of Granby , British soldier (b. 1721 )
- November 9 - John Campbell, 4th Duke Of Argyll , Scottish politician
- November 13 - George Grenville , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1712 )
- November 24 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault , French historian (b. 1685 )
- December 5 - James Stirling , Scottish mathematician (b. 1692 )
- Benning Wentworth , colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696 )
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