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Sat Oct 21 2000 at 20:49:37
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Born in 1770:
German
composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
.
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
English
poet
William Wordsworth
.
Polish
statesman and revolutionary figure Prince
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
.
American
explorer
William Clark
.
French poet
Sophie Frederike Schubart Merau
.
Italian
guitar
composer
Ferdinando Carulli
.
English architect
John Pinch
.
Napoleon
ic
marshal
Louis Gabriel Suchet
.
English
botanist
George Caley
.
English poet
James Hogg
.
Dutch illustrator
David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville
.
Died in 1770:
Scottish
mathematician
James Stirling
.
Methodist
evangelist
George Whitefield
.
French
painter
François Boucher
.
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
.
Former British
Prime Minister
George Grenville
.
Italian composer
Giuseppe Tartini
.
English poet
Mark Akenside
.
French physicist
Jean-Antoine Nollet
, who thought that
Benjamin Franklin
had faked his experiments in
electricity
.
German keyboard composer
Gottlieb Muffat
.
English poet
Thomas Chatterton
.
Massachusetts
freedman
Crispus Attucks
and four others (
Samuel Gray
,
James Caldwell
,
Samuel Maverick
,
Patrick Carr
), see below.
Events of 1770:
British troops fire on stone-throwing colonists. Five people are killed in what would later be called the
Boston Massacre
.
Lord Frederick North
becomes
Prime Minister
of
Great Britain
.
Parliament
repeals
the duties on four of the five items specified in the
Townshend Acts
, retaining the tax on
tea
.
Captain
James Cook
surveys the East Coast of
Australia
, landing in
Queensland
and stopping in
Botany Bay
, naming the area around it
New South Wales
.
The
Philadelphia
Society of Friends
(
Quakers
) establishes
a coeducational "Negro school"
, open to
slaves
and
free blacks
.
Voltaire
writes a letter to
Louis Henry Riche
in which he states
"It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"
.
An outbreak of
smallpox
decimates the
Pacific Northwest
Indians.
English chemist
Joeph Priestly
discovers that a substance from South America called
"
caoutchouc
"
could erase lead marks from white paper. He renamed the substance
rubber
.
Warren Hastings
becomes the
first British
Governor-General
of
India
.
1769
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How I Made Them
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18th Century
1771
1769
Boston Massacre
James Cook
Botany Bay
Chamber music
Great Barrier Reef
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
John Jortin
Robert Bankes Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
1754
George III
Faust
1776
Georg Hegel
Industrial Revolution
Military History
Beethoven and Napoleon, after 1810
Rudjer Boskovic
Ferdinando Carulli
1574
James Stirling
The Turk
American History