Explore 456 historical events from 1770–1779.
Ezekiel Hart was an entrepreneur and politician in British North America. He is often said to be the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire.
Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1843)
Princess Elizabeth, called Eliza, was the seventh child and third daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte. After marrying the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Frederick VI, she …
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (died 1840)
Friedrich August Schulze was a German novelist, who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun. Schulze was born in Dresden. His first novel, Der Mann, auf Freiersfüssen (1801), was f…
Friedrich Laun, German author (died 1849)
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano, usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military …
Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1820)
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. Before becoming prime minister he …
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)
Moses Waddel was an American educator and minister in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina. Famous as a teacher during his life, Moses Waddel was author of the bestselling book …
Moses Waddel, American minister and academic (died 1840)
Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.
Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (died 1837)
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what be…
William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (died 1838)
Frederick William III was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, wh…
Frederick William III of Prussia (died 1840)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism. His influence on Western philosophy extends across a wide range of to…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (died 1831)
Adam Johann von Krusenstern was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806.
Adam Johann von Krusenstern Imperial Russian Admiral and explorer (died 1846)
Thomas Phillips was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting. He painted many of the notable men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explore…
Thomas Phillips, English artist (died 1845)
Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist who conducted a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was a…
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French minister, physicist, and academic (born 1700)
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decora…
François Boucher, French painter and set designer (born 1703)
Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician.
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (born 1721)
Francis Cotes was an English painter who was one of the pioneers of English pastel painting and co-founded the Royal Academy in 1768.
Francis Cotes, English painter and academic (born 1726)
Robert Dinwiddie was a British colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Since the governors of Virginia remained in Great Britain…
Robert Dinwiddie, Scottish merchant and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693)
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet who committed suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Thomas Chatterton, English poet and prodigy (born 1752)
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, was a British diplomat and politician who represented Thirsk and Christchurch in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1727 and 1761.
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department…
George Whitefield, was an English Anglican priest and Itinerant preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (born 1714)
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby was a British Army officer and politician. The eldest son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, as he did not outlive his father…
John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (born 1721)
Colonel William Bartram was an American scientist and politician in the Province of North Carolina. He was a Quaker and the uncle of the naturalist of the same name.
William Bartram, American scientist and politician (born 1711)
The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. The aims were to observe t…
On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making t
Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo, first built in 1797, is one of the most authentically restored Catholic mission churches in California. Located at the mouth of Carmel …
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California,