* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

# 1760 – 1770 Sir William Baker

* 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( b. 1770 )

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

* April 23 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( b. 1770 )

William Shirley, former governor of Massachusetts, was appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1758 and served until 1770.

* Frederick William III of Prussia ( 1770 – 1840 ), King of Prussia

Tryon Palace was completed in 1770 and was the former home of British governor William Tryon.

In 1770, George Washington and his friend and personal surveyor, William Crawford ( soldier ), embarked on a journey down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh for the purpose of viewing lands to be apportioned among soldiers who had served in the French and Indian War.

Named after the famous British statesman William Pitt the Elder, the city was settled around 1770 by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut.

Washington acquired the parcel in 1770, and designated Colonel William Crawford to survey the lands in 1771.

Around 1770 the site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads.

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.

In 1811 he co-operated with William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), a Quaker and chemist, in a periodical called the Philanthropist.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 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 ).

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

In 1770 heiress Margaret Dixon married William Brown.

* William Wordsworth ( 1770 – 1850 ) becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

William Clark ( August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838 ) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

William Clark was born in Caroline County, Virginia, on August 1, 1770, the ninth of ten children of John and Ann Rogers Clark.

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 ceremonial wedding of the Dauphin and Dauphine took place on 16 May 1770, in the Palace of Versailles, after which was the ritual bedding.

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.

In July 1770, he took the chair of Mathematics at the University of Malta.

In February 1770, he moved near Nowy Targ, and in March, he took part in the quelling of the mutiny of Józef Bierzyński.

In 1770, Washington took the lead in securing the rights of him and his old soldiers in the French War, advancing money to pay expenses in behalf of the common cause and using his influence in the proper quarters.

There was mounting ridicule about his scheme and in the event, although the canal opened from Shardlow to near Stafford in 1770, it took eleven years to drive the tunnel.

Following the British defeat of the French Army in 1759, he moved to New York State, then the Province of New York, where he took out citizenship, adopted the English-American name of John Hector St. John, and in 1770 married an American woman, Mehitable Tippet.

In 1762 he took over a farm in Essex, where he engaged in various experiments, describing the results in A Course of Experimental Agriculture ( 1770 ).

On 12 July 1770, he took out a patent ( no.

" Her husband died a year later, and in 1770 she moved to Paris with her son, Pierre, and took the name of Olympe de Gouges.

The naval Battle of Chesma took place on 5 – 7 July 1770 near and in Çeşme ( Chesme or Chesma ) Bay, in the area between the western tip of Anatolia and the island of Chios, which was the site of a number of past naval battles between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

In 1770 the new Bishop, Count August von Limburg-Stirum, took up office.

Robert Graham ( 1735 – 11 December 1797 ), who took the name Bontine in 1770 and Cunninghame Graham in 1796, was a Scottish politician and poet.

During the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768-1774 ), the Don Cossacks on the Khopyor River took part in the campaign, and in 1770 then numbering four settlements requested to form a regiment.

It took 12 years, from 1770 to 1782, to create the Bronze Horseman, including pedestal, horse and rider.

He succeeded as 10th Baron Paget in 1769 on the death of his mother's second cousin the Earl of Uxbridge and by Royal Licence on 29 January 1770, took the name of Paget in lieu of Bayly.

Fought during the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774, this indecisive battle took place on 27 and 28 May 1770 at the entrance to the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece, when a Russian fleet under John Elphinstone engaged a larger Ottoman fleet.

The date of the Society's foundation is contested ; the earliest paper records of the Society are dated before 1770, and there are, moreover, mentions within the University records of a society existing and being open to students who took Logic, back when the University still resided within Glasgow Cathedral.

After Russian general Nicholas Repnin took the fortress of Izmail in 1770, it was heavily refortified, so as never to be captured again.

In 1768 the 29th along with the 14th Regiment of Foot were sent to Boston, Massachusetts, where on the evening of 5 March 1770, men of the 29th Grenadier Company under the command of Captain Thomas Preston took part in the Boston Massacre.

" Chalkey's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia ": extracted ..., Volume II " states: " In 1770 William Herbert made a settlement upon wasted and unappropriated land on Cubb Creek in Washington County, and occupied it until 1776, when his overseer was killed by the Indians when Rawley Duncan took possession.

On August 1, 1770, near Cahul lake, the Battle of Cahul took place ( Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 ).