In 1770, a group of Wentworth grant holders asked Allen to defend their case before New York's Supreme Court, a move that presented Allen with his first big stage.

Settlers failed to meet the terms of the original grant, so the plantation was transferred in 1770 to grantees including Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, after which it was named Cockburn Town, incorporated in 1797.

But those settlers forfeited their grant by failure to comply with the requirements of the charter, so the territory was re-granted to Dartmouth College on January 19, 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.

In 1671 James Ross obtained a fee farm grant of these and in 1770 David Kerr purchased the islands from the Earl of Clanbrassil.

They include photostatic copies of a journal of Carver's expedition to the Mississippi River ( 1766 – 1767 ), a Survey journal, and a Dictionary of the Naudowessee language, and typed transcripts of these documents ; copies of surveys and deeds to the Carver land grant of 1767, which encompassed some four million acres in present-day western Wisconsin ; copies of letters about the French and Indian War ( 1759 ) and James Tute's gifts to the Indians ( 1768 ); copies of two petitions to the British government ( 1769 – 1770 ) asking that Carver be reimbursed for his expedition to the Mississippi ; and a copy of a recommendation by the British government on this request.

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.

In an attempt to attract settlers from Ireland, in one of his first acts ( 1770 ) Patterson led the island's colonial assembly to rename the island " New Ireland ", but the British Government promptly vetoed this as exceeding the authority vested in the colonial government ; only the Privy Council in London could change the name of a colony.

Marie Antoinette was officially handed over to her French relations on 7 May 1770, on an island on the Rhine River near Kehl.

The island was seen and erroneously named " Cape Gloucester " by British explorer James Cook in 1770.

Cook gave the name only to the bight formed by the northern end of Stradbroke Island ( in 1770, there was only one island ) and the eastern side of Moreton Island.

The island was given to the Poros monastery from 1770 on by Antonios Serfos.

In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture.

James Cook sighted the island in 1770 and landed that same year.

While James Cook named the main headland on the island Cape Moreton on the 17 May 1770, it was Matthew Flinders who, on 31 July 1799, named the island.

Kiriri ( Hammond Island ) is the other permanently settled island of this group ; Tuined ( Possession Island ) is noted for Lt. James Cook's landing there in 1770.

The name of the island came about because of the apparent " magnetic " effect it had on the ship's compass of Captain Cook as he passed the island when sailing up the east coast of Australia in 1770.

The first European accounts of the island come from Captain James Cook who, in 1770, while navigating the Australian coast, called the island Magnetical Island, as a magnetic pull interfering with his vessel's compass appeared to emanate from the island.

In 1770, Lieutenant Governor Walter Patterson ( the island ’ s first Governor ) arrived and appointed a Council to assist him in the administration of the island.

Tupaia ( c. 1725 – December 1770 ) was a Polynesian navigator and arioi ( Tohunga or priest ), originally from the island of Ra ' iatea in the Pacific Islands group known to Europeans as the Society Islands.

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 response to these events the Turks destroyed the only village on the island in 1770.

It received its European name from Captain Cook, who sailed past it on 8 June 1770, remarked that it was a " tolerable high island " and named it after George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.

On May 7, 1770, Marie Antoinette was officially handed over by Austria to France on an island on the Rhine near Kehl.

* Nikolaides family: Nikolakis Hatzistamatis, the founder of the Nikolaides family was born in the island of Skiathos around 1770.

* 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.