* 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.

* 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 ).

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.

Governor Norborne Berkeley finally fulfilled Dinwiddie's promise in 1769 – 1770, with Washington subsequently receiving title to near where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, in what is now western West Virginia.

It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during 1769 – 1770.

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.

It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during ( 1769 – 1770 ).

This work was published in 1756 ( the year of Wolfgang's birth ), and went through two further German editions ( 1769, 1787 ), as well as being translated into Dutch ( 1766 ) and French ( 1770 ).

After Bossut left the École Royale du Génie Monge took his place in January 1769, and in 1770 he was also appointed instructor in experimental physics.

He met Frederick the Great privately at Neisse in 1769, and again at Mährisch-Neustadt in 1770.

The gang's leader, David Hartley, or King David as he was known, was found guilty of the 1769 murder of excise official William Dighton and was hanged at the York Tyburn on 28 April 1770.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

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 1769, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year ; in May 1770 he presented to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions.

* Elias Durnford ( acting, 1769 – 1770 )

Hooper quickly was able to move up the ranks, first in 1769 when he was appointed as Deputy Attorney of the Salisbury District, and then in 1770 when he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of North Carolina.

), 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 –?

This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.

The American Whig Society was born on June 24, 1769, and the Cliosophic Society on June 7, 1770.

By 1769, barges were using part of the cut, and in May 1770 an opening date of 2 July was set.

Although there are earlier hints ( such as a fragmentary speech by St George from Exeter, Devon, which may date from 1737, although published in 1770 ), the earliest complete text appears to be an undated chapbook of Alexander and the King of Egypt, published by John White ( d. 1769 ) in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1746 and 1769.

* Axel von Fersen, senior ( 1755 – 1756, 1760 – 1762, 1769 – 1770 )

What's more, they were acknowledged as being of " extraction chevaleresque " ( very old nobility ), having been noble since 1347, and so allowed to the " Honneurs de la Cour " by the King of France in 1750, 1769, 1770, 1775, 1777, 1785 and 1788.

# Lady Henrietta Somerset ( 26 April 1748 – 24 July 1770 ), married Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet on 6 April 1769, without issue