* 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.

* 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 ).

* 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.

He married Marie Antoinette of Austria, a daughter of Maria Theresa, in 1770.

Marie Antoinette ( or ; ; baptised Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna ( or Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna ); 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793 ) was an Archduchess of Austria from 1755 to 1770, a Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and the Queen of France and of Navarre from 1774 to 1792.

Marie Antoinette was officially handed over to her French relations on 7 May 1770, on an island on the Rhine River near Kehl.

Profile medallion of Marie Antoinette as Dauphine of France in 1770, allegorical to her marriage.

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia ( better known by the French form of her name, Marie Antoinette ), his second cousin once removed and the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the formidable Empress Maria Theresa.

Charles also struck up a firm friendship with his sister-in-law, Queen Marie Antoinette, whom he had first met at her arrival in France in April 1770 when he was twelve.

Under the patronage of his former music pupil, Marie Antoinette, who had married the future French king Louis XVI in 1770, Gluck signed a contract for six stage works with the management of the Paris Opéra.

She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Marie Catherine Sophie, Vicomtesse de Flavigny, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny ( 1770 – 1819 ), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German banker's daughter.

), Marie de Lesseps ( 1717 – 1722 ), Arnaud de Lesseps ( 1719 – 1726 ), Jean-Barthélémy de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1795 ), Marcel de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1730 ), Jean-Pierre de Lesseps ( 1721 – 1721 ), Catherine de Lesseps, Gracy de Lesseps ( 1725 – 1791 ), Plaisance de Lesseps ( 1727 – 1735 ), Michel de Lesseps ( 1729 – 1801 ), married in 1769 to Florence Verdier ( 1739 – 1822 ) ( parents of Louise Thérèse de Lesseps ( 1770 – 1866 ), married in 1788 to Mathieu Belland ( 1764 – 1817 )), Martin de Lesseps ( 1730 – 1807 ), married to Anna Caysergues ( 1730 – 1823 ) and had issue, Jeanne de Lesseps ( 1733 –?

The diplomatic revolution of 1756, sealed in 1770 with the personal union ( the diplomatic term for marriage ) of Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.

In 1770 they were one of twelve couples invited to dine with the newlyweds, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, in the Opéra of the Palace of Versailles, which had been constructed for the royal wedding.

The grandfather of Paul de Noailles, and brother of the fifth duke, Emmanuel Marie Louis ( 1743 – 1822 ), marquis de Noailles, was ambassador at Amsterdam from 1770 – 1776, at London 1776 – 1783, and at Vienna 1783 – 1792.

* Moutard – printer and bookseller to Queen Marie-Antoinette, to Princess Marie Joséphine of Savoy, and to Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy ( 1770 – 1792 )

On May 7, 1770, Marie Antoinette was officially handed over by Austria to France on an island on the Rhine near Kehl.

Two years later on August 25, 1770, her older sister, Marie Louise was born.

Rose Bertin opened her own clothing shop, Le Grand Mogol, on the Rue Saint-Honoré in 1770 and quickly found customers among influential noble ladies at Versailles, many of whom followed her from Mademoiselle Pagelle ’ s, including many ladies-in-waiting to the new Dauphine, Marie Antoinette.

Dresses and hair became Marie Antoinette's personal vehicles of expression, and Bertin clothed the Queen from 1770 until her dethronement in 1792.

Born Marie Sophie Ristaud ( sometimes spelt Risteau ) in March 1770 at Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, she was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker.

Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles, marquis de Noailles ( 1743 – 1822 ) was ambassador at Amsterdam from 1770 to 1776, at London 1776 – 1783, and at Vienna 1783 – 1792.

At the age of fifteen she could speak English and Italian, and had gained so high a reputation for her accomplishments as to be appointed reader to the three daughters of Louis XV in 1768, and lady in waiting to Marie Antionette in 1770.