* 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.

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.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

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.

It was closed in the 1770 as the city government perceived it to impoverish the local gentry.

By 1770 Chardin was the ' Premier peintre du roi ', and his pension of 1, 400 livres was the highest in the Academy.

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 ".

* La Religieuse, Roman ( 1760 ; revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s ; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796 ).

Dwiggins ' design was modified during 1957 to change the date from " 1770 " to " 1769 ," to accord with the date of the College Charter.

That design was used widely and, like Dwiggins ' seal, had its date changed from " 1770 " to " 1769 " around 1958.

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.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 ( Oeuvres de feu M. Abauzit ), and another at London in 1773 ( Oeuvres diverses de M. Abauzit ).

Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, AUSTRIA, a son of master forester Anton Mesmer ( 1701 — after 1747 ) and his wife Maria / Ursula ( 1701 — 1770 ), née Michel.

Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, marquis de Sotelo, was born on February 19, 1770 in Valence and died on August 8, 1848 in Paris.

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

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.

There are 1770 km of Waterways in Japan ; seagoing craft ply all coastal inland seas.

By 1770, all the languages belonging to the Finno-Ugric languages had been identified, almost 20 years before the traditional starting-point of Indo-European studies.

The treaty divided the ( largely undiscovered ) world equally between the Spanish and the Portuguese, along a north-south meridian line 370 leagues ( 1770 km / 1100 miles ) west of the Cape Verde islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Spain.

While the preceding are all distinct languages, they remain similar enough that Tupaia, a Tahitian travelling with Captain James Cook in 1769 – 1770, communicated effectively with Māori.

As with the Reports, Coke's Institutes became a standard textbook in the United States, and were recorded in the law libraries of Harvard College in 1723 and Brown University in 1770 ; John Jay, John Adams, Theophilus Parsons and Thomas Jefferson were all influenced by it.

This position did not keep his interest for very long, though: In 1770 he resigned from his post and began an unsettled and vagrant life that, with occasional breaks, would last for the next 25 years and would lead him all over Europe.

His last important work was the Palingénésie philosophique ( Geneva, 1769 – 1770 ); in it he treats of the past and future of living beings, and supports the idea of the survival of all animals, and the perfecting of their faculties in a future state.

In Philosophical Palingesis, or Ideas on the Past and Future States of Living Beings ( 1770 ), Bonnet argued that females carry within them all future generations in a miniature form.

Eon de Beaumont denied all knowledge of any such transaction and of Musgrave himself, and the House of Commons in 1770 decided that the charge was unsubstantiated.

Others, such as Rav Yisroel of Shklov ( 1770 – 1839 ), believed it may not have been broken at all but that it continued outside of the land of Israel.

The Privy Council in February 1770 considered the petition, and after deliberation dismissed all of the charges as " groundless, vexatious, and scandalous.

In the opinion of the people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue ; his health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord Clive for his pocket-borough of Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, in January 1770.

Crawley's location midway between London and Brighton on the direct route between them, which was turnpiked in 1770, contributed to its growth, as it became the natural stopping place for traffic of all types.

In 1770, the New York Supreme Court ( which included members holding competing titles to some of the Wentworth grants ) advanced New York's case by declaring all of Wentworth's grants invalid.

Since 1770, all Australian quoll species have declined in number owing to habitat loss caused by urbanization.

In 1770, Zoffany had been able to paint the King, the Queen, and all six eldest children with little difficulty.

Of the upper Ohio Valley, assessing the Allegheny, George Washington writes in his journal for Saturday, Nov. 17, 1770, " The Indians who are very dexterous, even their women, in the Management of Canoes, have there Hunting Camps & Cabins all along the River for the convenience of Transporting their Skins by Water to Market.

The Bow China Works prospered, employing some 300 artists and hands, until about 1770, when one of its founders died, by 1776 all of its moulds and implements were transferred to another manufacturer at Derby.

One of the basins had become redundant by 1770 and it was proposed to use this as a sump into which all the water from the other facilities could drain.

The primary purpose of all the Medway fortifications was the defence of the Naval Dockyard. The defences in 1770. The defences in 1812.

* Nerses V Ashtaraketsi ( 1770 – 1857 ), Catholicos of all Armenians

Austrian musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch, who studied all available letters and documents about the composer, arrived at the following conclusion about what the composer called himself: " In Italy, from 1770, Mozart called himself ' Wolfgango Amadeo ', and from about 1777, ' Wolfgang Amadè '.

Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the 1770 population of the Yuki proper, Huchnom, and Coast Yuki as 2, 000, 500, and 500, respectively, or 3, 000 in all.