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.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

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

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

Assuming office in 1770, he had a controversial career during which land title disputes and factional conflict slowed the initial attempts to populate and develop the island under a feudal system.

These practices caused confusion and dissension in Cabinet meetings, especially during the dysfunctional ministries of the Earl of Chatham from 1766 – 1768 and of the Duke of Grafton from 1768 – 1770 when no one, not even the King, seemed to be in charge.

Slave being whipped in Brazil, during the heyday of gold exploration in Minas Gerais ( 1770 ).

The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.

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.

By 1770, the castle had fallen into disrepair, and many parts of it were demolished during the late 18th century and early 19th century.

His room was cleaned, and during the day he was visited by his new attendant, a creole and a compatriot of Joséphine de Beauharnais, named Jean Jacques Christophe Laurent ( 1770 – 1807 ).

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 ).

He confirmed 5, 309 persons, who, with but few exceptions, were Indians (" neophytes ") converted during the 14 years from 1770.

The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres ( Neichatel, 1770 ), translated as A Tour to London 1772 ; Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765.

In 1770, Kastro was besieged by Count Orlov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 – 1774.

The Lettere famigliari, giving an account of his travels through Spain, Portugal and France during the years 1761-1765, were well received, and when afterwards published in English ( 4 vols., 1770 ), were highly commended by Johnson.

); this model has not survived, since the oldest existing East Asian rain gauge is one made in 1770, during the reign period of King Yeongjo.

The immediate consequence of Clive's victory at Plassey was an increase in the revenue demand on Bengal by at least 20 %, much of which was appropriated by Zamindars and corrupt Company Officials, which led to considerable hardship for the rural population, particularly during the famine of 1770.

Choiseul had been ready go to war in 1770 during the Falklands Crisis, but Louis XV had been alarmed by the British naval mobilization and instead dismissed Choiseul and backed down.

His Ministry had an early success during the Falklands Crisis in 1770 in which they faced down a Spanish attempt to seize the Falkland islands, nearly provoking a war.

From 1748 until his death he was minister at Inveresk in Midlothian, and during this long career rose to high eminence in the Church of Scotland not only as leader of the moderate or " broad " Church section, but as Moderator of the General Assembly 1770 and Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1789.

In 1770 Hopkins once again became Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and during this tenure became a principal player in the colony's handling of the 1772 Gaspee Affair, when a group of irate Rhode Island citizens boarded a British revenue vessel, and burned it to the waterline.

George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville PC ( 26 January 1716 – 26 August 1785 ), styled The Honourable George Sackville until 1720, Lord George Sackville from 1720 to 1770 and Lord George Germain from 1770 to 1782, was a British soldier and politician who was Secretary of State for America in Lord North's cabinet during the American War of Independence.

In this post, he oversaw the mobilisation of the British navy during the 1770 Falklands Crisis.

Izalco has erupted at least 51 times since 1770.

The Inquisition Palace, finished in 1770, preserves its original features of colonial times.

are the dates of occurrence and extracts from the historical chronicles of the times: 1770,

The region was divided among strongly fortified castles, and in 1191 Thomas I of Savoy found it necessary to grant to the communes a Carta delle Franchigie (" Charter of Liberties ") that preserved autonomy — rights that were fiercely defended until 1770, when they were revoked in order to tie Aosta more closely to the Piedmont, but which were again demanded during post-Napoleonic times.

Matthew Boulton remarked in 1770 how " by the many mechanical contrivances and extensive apparatus wh we are possess'd of, our men are enabled to do from twice to ten times the work that can be done without the help of such contrivances ".

According to some records, he left the Land of Israel three times ( 1755, 1770, and 1781 ), living in Hebron in the meantime.

They were the sons of Major-General Sir Robert Travers ( 1770 – 1834 ) C. B., K. C. M. G., of the 95th Rifle Brigade, who was one of six brothers who again all served in the military, and one of three to be knighted for their services, including Rear-Admiral Sir Eaton Stannard Travers ( 1777 – 1858 ), who was engaged in battle with the enemy upwards of over one hundred times, and was mentioned in dispatches eight times for gallantry.

The most living former Prime Ministers at any one time has been 5, which has happened several times: the first time was between Jan and Nov 1770, while Lord North was in office, and The Earl of Bute, George Grenville, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Pitt the Elder, and the 3rd Duke of Grafton were still alive ( Grenville died in Nov 1770 ); the most recent was between Nov 1990 and May 1995, while John Major was in office, and Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan and Thatcher were still alive ( Wilson died in May 1995 ).

The first open denial of the existence of God and avowal of atheism since classical times may be that of Baron d ' Holbach ( 1723 – 1789 ) in his 1770 work, The System of Nature.

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

* 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.

* 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern ( November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846 ;, Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern ), was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.

During the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ) in 1770 – 1775 Naoussa Bay was the home base for the Russian Archipelago Squadron of Count Alexey Orlov.

* The Russian attack on the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Chesma, 1770.

From 1770 to 1798 there was a continuing presence of the Russian Navy among the Knights of Malta.

Just outside of the city of Chesme on June 24, 1770, twelve Russian ships engaged twenty-two Turkish vessels and destroyed them with the use of fire ships.

The Orlov Revolt ( 1770 ) was a precursor to the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 ), which saw a Greek uprising in the Peloponnese at the instigation of Count Orlov, commander of the Russian Naval Forces of the Russo-Turkish War.

Panin, ( 1770 – 1837 ) a former Russian ambassador to Prussia, published a case report.

* Adam Jerzy Czartoryski ( 1770 – 1861 ), Polish nobleman and minister of the Russian Empire

Nine months later, on the 13 September 1770, Bernstorff was dismissed as the result of Johann Friedrich Struensee's intrigues, and, rejecting the brilliant offers of Catherine II if he would enter the Russian service, retired to his German estates, where he died on the 18 February 1772.

However Poznań again suffered military occupation and conflict during the events involving the Bar Confederation, with Russian troops occupying the city in 1768 – 1769, followed by confederate troops in 1769 – 1770, Russians again in 1770 – 1771, Prussians in 1771 – 1773 ( withdrawing after the First Partition of Poland had been ratified ), and Russian troops again in 1773 – 1775.

After the Orlov Revolt of 1770 in the Peloponnese ( which was provoked by the Orlov brothers with the support of Catherine II of the Russian Empire ), Cosmas started to preach in what is now Southern Albania, then under the rule of Ahmet Kurt Pasha, governor of the Pashalik of Berat.

In 1770, the castle was seized by Russian forces and the family was expelled.

* Alexander ( 1770 — 1844 ) who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia between 1800 and 1832.

In early 1770, he was contacted by Russian emissaries, who hoped to instigate a revolt amongst the Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire.

The first Russian Navy base, Taganrog was officially founded by Peter the Great on September 12, 1698 and hosted the Azov Flotilla of Catherine the Great ( 1770 – 1783 ).

* 1770: Burning of the Ottoman fleet at Naval Battle of Chesma by a Russian fleet that has come from Baltic Sea.

In 1770, the Ukrainian Corps were merged with the Russian regular army ; however, the special tax that was paid by the population of Ukraine for the maintaining the landmilitia was not liquidated until the beginning of the 19th century.

The Russian Army conquered the town in 1770, and as a consequence, an epidemic of cholera broke out.