* 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 – 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 ).

Around 1770, the great hall was again expanded in the Georgian style.

The club house, previously known as Effingham House, is Georgian in style and was reconstructed by David Burnsall in about 1770.

Adlington Hall, built around 1770 by Sir Richard Clayton, was a Georgian mansion of brick and stone, on high ground, replacing an ancient timber and plaster house on the same site.

is an elegant Georgian town house built by the prominent architect Joseph Pickford in 1770 for his own family.

During the Georgian rule over Alaverdi region, the Alaverdi Copper Smelter was founded in 1770, by the order of Georgian king Erekle II.

The Russians sent a small force under General Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben who helped Solomon to recover Kutaisi in August 1770, but the general's rudeness and condescension alienated the Georgians ; Totleben was quickly recalled from Georgia, but his successor failed to take the Ottoman-held Georgian port of Poti on the Black Sea.

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

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.

The first obverse, showing a right-facing bust of the king, with the inscription, was used in 1763, 1766, 1770, 1772, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1784, and 1786 ; the second obverse, showing an older bust of the king and the same inscription, was used in 1792, 1795, and 1800, while the third, laureated bust of the king with the inscription was used in 1817, 1818 and 1820.

Mike Fink ( also spelled Miche Phinck ) ( 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.

Council proclaimed the king dethroned 22 October 1770.

The prime minister was the favorite of the king, but the aristocracy despised him as an upstart son of a country squire ( although Prime Minister Sebastião de Melo is known today as Marquis of Pombal, the title was only granted in 1770, fifteen years after the earthquake ).

Spain ’ s response crucially depended on French support in the event of war, and France began to prepare a fleet, but the French king ’ s dismissal of Choiseul in December 1770 removed that prospect, and the recall of the British envoy Harris from Madrid showed that Britain was still prepared to go to war.

He was crowned as junior king in June of 1770, and married Margaret of France, a French princess.

Appointed a chaplain to the king in 1769, Percy was formally admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge that year, and received a doctorate of divinity from Cambridge in 1770.

The Weyto language was first mentioned by the Scottish traveler James Bruce, who spoke Amharic, passed through the area about 1770 and reported that " the Wayto speak a language radically different from any of those in Abyssinia ," but was unable to obtain any " certain information " on it, despite prevailing upon the king to send for two Weyto men for him to ask questions, which they would " neither answer nor understand " even when threatened with hanging.

The former king of Manipur who was driven out in 1770 by the Burmese, returned and overthrew the Burmese puppet ruler.

In 1770, the king became more and more isolated and less counted upon as his mental health deteriorated ; Caroline Matilda, until now ignored at court, became the centre of the royal court's attention, and gathered followers called “ Dronningens Parti ” ( in English: " The Queen's Party ").

Around 1770, he came to live in the area, and is said to have then helped in the deposition of the last king of the previous dynasty, Sarborada.