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

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

* 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 ).

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1830, philosopher of world history

* November 14 – Georg Hegel, German philosopher ( b. 1770 )

Here, he briefly studied under the philosopher Jean Hyppolite ( 1907 – 1968 ), an existentialist and expert on the work of 19th century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ).

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) is the philosopher who brought the dialectical method to its pinnacle of development.

With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher ( 1768 – 1834 ) in theology and Leopold von Ranke ( 1795 – 1886 ) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university.

The philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) postulated the idealism that Karl Marx countered with dialectical materialism.

( Schaffhausen, 1839 – 1840 ); and those written to him by his brother ( 1770 – 1809 ), Johann Georg Müller, appeared, under the editorship of Eduard Haug and André Weibel, at Frauenfeld ( 2 vols., 1893 ) and Göttingen ( 6 vols.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany.

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) presented a strong evolutionist account of history in the Lectures on the Philosophy of History ( Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte, 1837 ) chronicling the development of the historical Geist ( Spirit ) through serial realisations of Volkgeister ( Folk Spirits ).

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

The remaining two sons, Georg Wilhelm Christian ( 1769 – 1811 ) and August ( 1770 – 1822 ), were declared incapacitated and excluded from the line of succession ; neither of them married.

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, also translated as Lectures on the Philosophy of World History ( German: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte ), is the title of a major work by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ), originally given as lectures at the University of Berlin in 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831.

Georg Sverdrup ( 25 April 1770 – 8 December 1850 ), born Jørgen Sverdrup, was a Norwegian philologist, who is well known for being a member of Norwegian Constituent Assembly in Eidsvoll in 1814 and later the parliament.

It is named after Johann Georg Repsold ( 1770 – 1830 ), a German astronomer.

* Elysium ( Libretto: Johann Georg Jacobi, 18 January 1770, Hoftheater Hannover )

Reactions against positivism began when German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770 – 1831 ) voiced opposition to both empiricism, which he rejected as uncritical, and determinism, which he viewed as overly mechanistic.

Johann Georg Repsold ( September 19, 1770 – January 14, 1830 ) was a German astronomer.

* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ( August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831 ) German Philosopher.