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

* Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1780 )

* Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata

* Armida abbandonata by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri ( Venice, 1707 )

* Armida abbandonata by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Bologna, 1716 )

* Armida abbandonata by Antonio Bioni ( Prague, 1725 )

* Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1770 )

The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles was inhabited by María Concepción Armida, who is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.

* Rinaldo in Armida by Josef Mysliveček ( Milan, 1780 )

Rinaldo and Armida, by Francois Boucher, 1734 ; this painting gained Boucher entrance to the Academie ( Louvre Museum )

He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being " The Enchantress Armida ", exhibited in 1831 ; " Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music ", 1834 ; " Eros ", 1836 ; " Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora " and the " Prisoner of Chillon ", 1837 ; " The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed ", 1839 ; " The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions ", 1841 ; and a " Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia ", 1843.

Rinaldo and Armida, by François Boucher.

The witch Armida ( modeled on Circe in Homer and the witch Alcina in Ariosto's epic ) enters the Christian camp asking for their aid ; her seductions divide the knights against each other and a group leaves with her, only to be transformed into animals by her magic.

Two Christian knights seek out the hidden fortress, brave the dangers that guard it and, by giving Rinaldo a mirror of diamond, force him to see himself in his effeminated and amorous state and to return to the war, leaving Armida heartbroken.

* Armida by Benedetto Ferrari ( Venice, 1639 ) music lost

* Armida by Marco Marazzoli ( Ferrara, 1641 )

* Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani ( Brescia, 1697 ) music lost

* Armida al campo by Giuseppe Boniventi ( Venice, 1708 )

* Armida regina di Damasco by Teofilo Orgiani ( Verona, 1711 ) music lost

* Armida in Damasco by Giacomo Rampini ( Venice, 1711 )

* Armida al campo d ' Egitto by Antonio Vivaldi ( Venice, 1718 )

* Armida delusa by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Venice, 1720 )

* Das eroberte Jerusalem, oder Armida und Rinaldo by Georg Caspar Schurmann ( Brunswick, 1722 )

* 1770: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Piccinni

* 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

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

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.

For instance, Goehr's Arianna uses the libretto of a lost opera by Monteverdi, Arianna abbandonata, and conjures up sonorities reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance.

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.

However, before the national debate caused by the Viola case, a 1964 satire directed by Pietro Germi, Seduced and Abandoned ( Sedotta e abbandonata ), treated the Sicilian custom as a dark comedy.

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

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 ".

* 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