* 1770 – David Thompson, Canadian explorer ( d. 1857 )

* 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.

* 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

* 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

* 1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist ( d. 1850 )

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ).

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".

* 1714 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader ( d. 1770 )

* 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer ( d. 1827 )

* 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1770 )

* 1722 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( d. 1770 )

* 1831 – Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist ( b. 1770 )

He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.

In 1757, he married Mary ( Polly ) Howard ( 1740 – 1770 ).

Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

* 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( b. 1770 )

It was named for Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, father of Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782.

* Frederick William III of Prussia ( 1770 – 1840 ), King of Prussia

He met Frederick the Great privately at Neisse in 1769, and again at Mährisch-Neustadt in 1770.

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC ( 13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792 ), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.

# Frederick Augustus ( 27 August 1712-15 October 1770 ), Count of Cosel ; married on 1 June 1749 to Countess Friederike Christiane of Holtzendorff.

The father was Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels ( b. 22 October 1770 ).

By Frederick William III of Prussia ( 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840 ); married on 24 December 1793.

On 22 March 1770, Frederick married Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower ( d. 27 Jan 1824 ).

His first posting was to Brussels ( 1755 – 1757 ), then Paris ( 1760 – 1763 ), Warsaw ( 1763 – 1764 ), and ultimately ( as ambassador ) to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in Berlin ( 1770 – 77 ).

He joined the Royal Saxon Horse Guards in 1770 and served as Adjutant general of King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony from 1788 to 1791.

* Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister ( 1770 – 1782 )

# Charles Frederick Henry ( 3 May 1770 – 22 August 1791 );

In 1770 James Cook ( then a Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy ) in His Majesty ’ s Endeavour Bark sailed past the coast off Mackay, after travelling North for a further two days, in his Journal for Monday 4 June he recorded that he named the body of water through which he sailed Whitsunday ’ s Passage “… as it was discovered on the day the Church commemorates that Festival ” and called the islands in the area “ Cumberland Isles in honour of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ” ( Henry Frederick, the brother of His Majesty King George III of England ).

# 1760 – 1770 Sir William Baker

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

* April 23 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( b. 1770 )

William Shirley, former governor of Massachusetts, was appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1758 and served until 1770.

In 1770 William Willoughby took over Highbury Barn and greatly increased its popularity.

Tryon Palace was completed in 1770 and was the former home of British governor William Tryon.

In 1770, George Washington and his friend and personal surveyor, William Crawford ( soldier ), embarked on a journey down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh for the purpose of viewing lands to be apportioned among soldiers who had served in the French and Indian War.

Named after the famous British statesman William Pitt the Elder, the city was settled around 1770 by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut.

Washington acquired the parcel in 1770, and designated Colonel William Crawford to survey the lands in 1771.

Around 1770 the site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads.

The gang's leader, David Hartley, or King David as he was known, was found guilty of the 1769 murder of excise official William Dighton and was hanged at the York Tyburn on 28 April 1770.

In 1811 he co-operated with William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), a Quaker and chemist, in a periodical called the Philanthropist.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 1770.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

Close by were the residences of three prominent Quaker abolitionists: William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), Joseph Woods the elder, and Samuel Hoare Jr ( 1751 – 1825 ).

In 1770 heiress Margaret Dixon married William Brown.

* William Wordsworth ( 1770 – 1850 ) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

William Clark ( August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838 ) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

William Clark was born in Caroline County, Virginia, on August 1, 1770, the ninth of ten children of John and Ann Rogers Clark.