* Armida abbandonata ( Naples, 1770 ) – libretto by Francesco Saverio de ' Rogati

* Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1770 )

* Armida abbandonata ( 1770 ) by Jommelli

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

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Following the modest success of Le donne letterate Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libretti by Boccherini.

Detail from an oil painting by Cosmo Alexander, 1770 ; in University Hall, Brown University, Providence, R. I.

He also resolved a significant number-theory problem formulated by Waring in 1770.

Historian Walter Rodney estimates that by c. 1770, the King of Dahomey earned around £ 250, 000 per year by selling captive Africans to the European slave traders.

Meanwhile, the British presence in the west continued, until interrupted by Spain during the Falkland Crisis from 10 July 1770 to 22 January 1771.

The agrarian reforms in northwestern Germany in the era 1770 – 1870 were driven by progressive governments and local elites.

In 1749 the city of Port-au-Prince was established on the West coast, which in 1770 took over as the capital of the colony from Cap-Français, however that same year the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city killing 200 people immediately, and 30, 000 later from famine and disease brought on by the natural disaster.

The transformation was led by two cities that grew rapidly after 1770.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

* Wigger, John H. ( 1998 ) Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510452-8 – p. ix & 269 focus on 1770 – 1910

Much of Paganini's playing ( and his violin composition ) was influenced by two violinists, Pietro Locatelli ( 1693 – 1746 ) and August Duranowski ( 1770 – 1834 ).

After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.

The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Twelve: Return to the Palace ( detail ), 1764 — 1770, by Xu Yang

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

A map by Guillaume Delisle ( 1770 )

Sandstone statue Maria Immaculata by Fidelis Sporer, around 1770, in Freiburg, Germany.

During this time he published Histoire de Nader Chah ( 1770 ), a French translation of a work originally written in Persian by Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi.

In System of Nature by Baron D ' Holbach ( 1770, translated into English in 1797 ), he asks " was the animal anterior to the egg, or did the egg precede the animal?

In number theory, Waring's problem, proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring, asks whether for every natural number k there exists an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s k < sup > th </ sup > powers of natural numbers ( for example, every number is the sum of at most 4 squares, or 9 cubes, or 19 fourth powers, etc .).

It was named in 1770 by Joseph Priestly

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

* Didone abbandonata ( 18 January 1823, Teatro Regio, Turin )

* R 1. 88 Didone abbandonata ( 4. 11. 1794 Naples, Teatro di S Carlo )

* 1724: Didone abbandonata by Domenico Sarro

* 1740: Didone abbandonata by Baldassare Galuppi

* 1747: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli

* 1762: Didone abbandonata by Giuseppe Sarti

* 1823: Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante

Under her influence he wrote in rapid succession Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

* Didone abbandonata ( 1724 )

* Didone abbandonata ( 1726 )

The marriage of princess Maria Josepha of Saxony to the French Dauphin gave Hasse the opportunity to journey to Paris in the summer of 1750, where his Didone abbandonata was performed.

He must have left Venice at the very end of 1746 or at the beginning of the following year, because on 28 January 1747 Jommelli was staging at the Argentina theatre in Rome his first version of the " Didone abbandonata ", and in May at San Carlo theatre in Naples a second version of " Eumene ".

* Didone abbandonata ( Rome, 1847 ) – libretto by Metastasio

* Didone abbandonata ( Stuttgart, 1763 )

Among the opera recordings on CD or DVD are Il caffè di campagna ( 2011 ), La clemenza di Tito ( 2010 ), La diavolessa ( 2004 ), Didone abbandonata ( 2007 ), Il filosofo di campagna ( 1959 and 2001 ), Gusto primo, re di Svezia ( 2005 ), Il mondo alla roversa ( 2007 ), and L ' Olimpiade ( 2009 ).

Under her wing, Metastasio produced libretto after libretto, and they were rapidly set by the greatest composers in Italy and Austria, establishing the transnational tone of opera seria: Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

Vinci's settings of Didone abbandonata and Artaserse were much praised for their stromento recitative, and he played a crucial part in establishing the new style of melody.

1792 saw Storace produce the boldest of his operatic projects, Dido, Queen of Carthage, with a libretto by Prince Hoare after Metastasio's Didone abbandonata.

Indeed, it ranks with Demofoonte and Didone abbandonata, dramas excelled in popularity only by Artaserse and Alessandro nell ' Indie.