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.

* Joseph Smith ( 1682 – 1770 ), British art collector and consul at Venice

In 1770, two authorized Methodist preachers, Richard Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor, arrived from the British Connexion.

It was named in 1770 by Joseph Priestly

In England, it was observed by Joseph Priestley, in 1770, that a piece of the material was extremely good for rubbing off pencil marks on paper, hence the name rubber.

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.

Made " Marquis of Pombal " in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1779.

A further step was the 1770 paper Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations by the French-Italian mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, in his method of Lagrange resolvents, where he analyzed Cardano and Ferrarri's solution of cubics and quartics by considering them in terms of permutations of the roots, which yielded an auxiliary polynomial of lower degree, providing a unified understanding of the solutions and laying the groundwork for group theory and Galois theory.

In 1770, English physicist Joseph Priestley studied the erosive effect of electrical discharges.

* Joseph Mendelssohn ( 1770 – 1848 ), German Jewish banker, founder of Mendelssohn & Co., son of Moses

Joseph Neef ( 1770 – 1854 ) published in 1808 the first work on educational method to be written in English in the United States, Sketch of A Plan and Method of Education.

Between the years 1765 and 1770 James Douglas, Andrew Colville, George Blackburn, Joseph Black, Samuel Briggs and James Piper settled in and around present day Abingdon under purchases from Dr. Thomas Walker.

Consequently, opus numbers are not usually in chronological order, unpublished compositions usually had no opus number, and numeration gaps and sequential duplications occurred when publishers issued contemporaneous editions of a composer ’ s works, as in the sets of string quartets by Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ); Haydn's Op.

Around 1770, Joseph Louis Lagrange began the groundwork that unified the many different tricks that had been used up to that point to solve equations, relating them to the theory of groups of permutations, in the form of Lagrange resolvents.

During his Paris years ( 1770 – 1778 ) Stamitz began to cooperate with the Bohemian born clarinet virtuoso Joseph Beer ( 1744 – 1811 ) which proved fruitful for both Stamitz and Beer.

Samuel Sorbière, a disciple, recounts Gassendi's life in the first collected edition of the works, by Joseph Bougerel, Vie de Gassendi ( 1737 ; 2nd ed., 1770 ); as does Damiron, Mémoire sur Gassendi ( 1839 ).

Close by were the residences of three prominent Quaker abolitionists: William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), Joseph Woods the elder, and Samuel Hoare Jr ( 1751 – 1825 ).

Merivale was the second son of John Herman Merivale ( 1770 – 1844 ) and Louisa Heath Drury, daughter of Joseph Drury, headmaster of Harrow.

The Blue-winged Kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

* In 1770, Oberammergau was informed that all passion plays in Bavaria had been banned by order of the Ecclesiastical Council of the Elector, Maximilian Joseph at the behest of the Roman Catholic Church.

* Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Count Molitor ( 1770 – 1849 ), Marshal of France in 1823

Botany Bay had been discovered by Lieutenant James Cook during his voyage of discovery in 1770, and was recommended by the eminent botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Cook, as a suitable site for a settlement.

This theorem was proven by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1770, and corresponds to Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares.

Sydney Parkinson, the Botanical illustrator on James Cook's 1770 voyage that first charted the eastern coastline of Australia, made a large number of such drawings under the direction of naturalist Joseph Banks.

Made Marquess of Pombal in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1777.

* 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.

* 1770 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal ( d. 1826 )

* January 3 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal ( b. 1770 )

The strict and conservative education he received from the Duc de La Vauguyon, " gouverneur des Enfants de France " ( governor of the Children of France ), from 1760 until his marriage in 1770, did not prepare him for the throne that he was to inherit in 1774 after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.

Under the patronage of his former music pupil, Marie Antoinette, who had married the future French king Louis XVI in 1770, Gluck signed a contract for six stage works with the management of the Paris Opéra.

Louis Gabriel Suchet, 1st Duc d ' Albufera ( 2 March 1770 – 3 January 1826 ) was a Marshal of France and one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals.

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.

In 1770 Stamitz went to Paris where he went into service with Duke Louis of Noailles, who made him his court composer.

* Louis Billouart de Kervaségan, chevalier de Kerlérec ( 1704 – 1770 ), last French governor of Louisiana

* Louis Nicolas Davout, Duke of Auerstaedt, Prince of Eckmühl ( 1770 – 1823 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

* Louis Gabriel Suchet, Duke of Albufera ( 1770 – 1826 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1811

Field Marshal John ( Jean Louis ) Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB, PC ( 7 November 1680 – 28 April 1770 ) was a French-born British soldier.

The original design was to have a miniature bust of Louis XV on top, but it was replaced by Minerva after his death in 1770.

Marthe-Marguerite wrote valuable Souvenirs of the court of Louis XIV ; these were edited by Voltaire ( 1770 ), and by many later editors.

The diplomatic revolution of 1756, sealed in 1770 with the personal union ( the diplomatic term for marriage ) of Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.

Louis XVI of France had commissioned Lapérouse to explore the Pacific In April 1770 James Cook's expedition had sailed onto the east coast of Australia whilst exploring the south Pacific searching for Terra Australis or ‘ Land of the South ’.

Ruffini developed Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory, following 29 years after Lagrange ’ s " Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des equations " ( 1770 – 1771 ) which was largely ignored until Ruffini who established strong connections between permutations and the solvability of algebraic equations.

Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d ' Haussonville ( 1770 – 1846 ) was a French aristocrat and political figure, the father of Joseph d ' Haussonville.

In 1770 they were one of twelve couples invited to dine with the newlyweds, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, in the Opéra of the Palace of Versailles, which had been constructed for the royal wedding.

The latter residence was bought by Louis XV in 1770 only to later end up as the site of the Odéon Theatre.

In 1770, his son married Bathilde d ' Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans and sister of Philippe Égalité.

On 24 April 1770, he married Bathilde d ' Orléans, only surviving daughter of Louis Philippe d ' Orléans, Duke of Orléans and Louise Henriette de Bourbon.