Explore 456 historical events from 1770–1779.
The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. It began as a colonial rebellion and turned into a revolution eventually res…
American Revolution: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Daniel D. Tompkins was an American politician who served as the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He previously served as the fourth governor of New York…
Daniel D
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Haxo became famous in the Siege of Antwerp in 183…
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (died 1838)
John Wilbur was a prominent American Quaker minister and religious thinker who was at the forefront of a controversy that led to "the second split" in the Religious Society of Fr…
John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (died 1856)
Commodore William Bainbridge was a United States Navy officer. During his long career in the young American navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is not…
William Bainbridge, American commodore (died 1833)
Antonio González de Balcarce was an Argentine soldier and statesman of the independence era. He briefly served as interim Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la …
Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentinian commander and politician, 5th Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa. In…
Auguste de Marmont, French general (died 1852)
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, S…
Robert Southey, English poet and author (died 1843)
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the…
Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (died 1809)
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she marri…
Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian…
Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV was a Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist.
Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic (died 1824)
Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,, known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of the Bengal …
Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (died 1839)
Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German prince and military officer.
Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (born 1714)
Louis XV, known as Louis the Beloved, was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he re…
Louis XV, King of France (born 1710)
Anna Morandi Manzolini was an Italian anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna. She became internationally known for the pr…
Anna Morandi Manzolini, Spanish anatomist (born 1714)
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical wo…
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (died 1840)
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illino…
Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist (died 1845)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755. He also held the offices of Secretary of State for th…
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
Major-General Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate…
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (born 1715)
Field Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and 1st Baron Kilmaine, PC was a British army officer. After serving as a junior officer in Spain and the Low Countries during the Wa…
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, Irish field marshal (born 1682)
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche,, was a French writer.
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (born 1722)
Johann Jakob Reiske was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.
Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (born 1716)
Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic re…
Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer and educator (born 1714)
Pope Clement XIV, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in September 1774. At the …
Pope Clement XIV (born 1705)