* 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 – 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 )

* 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 ).

From 1597 to 1794, Bonn was the residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne, and is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven ( born 1770 ).

In addition he was a patron of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn in 1770 ; the elector financed the composer's first journey to Vienna.

Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ) was the leading composer of Romantic music.

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* March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer ( b. 1770 )

Consequently, opus numbers are not usually in chronological order, unpublished compositions usually had no opus number, and numeration gaps and sequential duplications occurred when publishers issued contemporaneous editions of a composer ’ s works, as in the sets of string quartets by Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ); Haydn's Op.

* March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer ( b. 1770 )

* Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), composer

* 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven born

Turkish music also appears in works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Michael Haydn, Gioacchino Rossini, Ludwig Spohr, in two operas of Gluck's, Iphigenie auf Tauris ( 1764 ) and Die Pilger von Mekka ( 1779 ), and in Symphony No. 6 A minor (" Sinfonie turque ") by Friedrich Witt ( 1770 – 1836 ).

In 1770 – 71, the Zytglogge was renovated by Niklaus Hebler and Ludwig Emanuel Zehnder, who refurbished the structure in order to suit the tastes of the late Baroque, giving the tower its contemporary outline.

He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ).

On about 16 December 1770 their second son was born ; he was baptised Ludwig, after his grandfather, the next day.

* Wilhelm Ludwig Karl Flamand of Nassau-Weilburg ( The Hague, 12 December 1761-Kirchheim, 16 April / 26 April 1770 )

During the course of his lifetime ( 1770 – 1827 ), Ludwig van Beethoven enjoyed relationships with many of his musical contemporaries.

In 1725 it became a Hof van Plaisantie ( Court of Pleasures ) and in 1770 – 1773 the current classical facade was built.

* Dierkundig mengelwerk, in het welke de nieuwe of nog duistere zoorten van dieren, door naauwkeurige afbeeldingen, beschryvingen en verhandelingen opgehelderd worden ( Utrecht: van Paddenburg & van Schoonhoven, 1770 ).

* Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel ( 1765 – 1770 )

Robert Dinwiddie ( 1693 – 27 July 1770 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758, first under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, and then, from July 1756 to January 1758, as deputy for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.