Explore 312 historical events from 1770–1779.
Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries…
Ludwig Tieck, German poet, author, and critic (died 1853)
Thomas Young was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. H…
Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer, colonial administrator and astronomer. He served in many important wars of the late 18th and e…
Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
John Randolph, commonly known as John Randolph of Roanoke, was an American planter, and a politician from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives at various times between…
John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia (died 1833)
Abraham Colles was an Irish surgeon and physician who served as Professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the President of…
Abraham Colles, Irish anatomist (died 1841)
Jacob Aall was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.
Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist and politician (died 1844)
Karl Peter Andreas Faber was a Prussian archivist and historian.
Karl Faber, Prussian historian and academic (died 1853)
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scient…
Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (died 1858)
Ali Bey al-Kabir was a mamluk who served as shaykh al-balad of Ottoman Egypt in 1760–1766 and 1767–1772. He was effectively the strongman of Egypt and in 1769 practically pursued i…
Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egyptian sultan (born 1728)
Alban Butler was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Born in Northamptonshire, he studied at the English College in Douay, France, where he later taught philosophy a…
Alban Butler, English priest and hagiographer (born 1710)
Wolraad Woltemade 1708 – 1 June 1773 was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The stor…
Wolraad Woltemade, South African folk hero (born 1708)
Francisco José Freire was a Portuguese historian and philologist.
Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (born 1719)
Johann Joachim Quantz was a German composer, flautist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, whe…
Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (born 1697)
George Edwards was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".
George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist (born 1693)
Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuani…
Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)
Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro was a Spanish historian.
Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian and author (born 1701)
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton,, known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British politician and writer who served as Chancellor of the Excheq…
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1709)
The Partition Sejm was a Sejm lasting from 1773 to 1775 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, convened by its three neighbours in order to legalize their First Partition of Poland…
The Polish Partition Sejm met to discuss the First Partition of Poland, carried out the previous year by Russia, Prussia
Alexander Fordyce was a Scottish banker, centrally involved in the bank run on Neale, James, Fordyce and Down which led to the credit crisis of 1772. He fled abroad and was declare…
Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire an
Great Britain, officially the Kingdom of Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and …
The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne was a French privateer, East India captain, and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geograp…
French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand
The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The growth of p…
First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Russia sign three bilateral conventions…
Gustav III, also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power…
Gustav III, also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule…