Explore 159 historical events from 1770–1779.
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly, French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served a…
Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (born 1717)
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony on the eastern coast of North America, founded in 1636 on former land of the Narragansett tribe by Purit…
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars
Martin Leopold Widhalm was an Austrian or German luthier known for his work in Nuremberg. Charles Beare considers Widhalm to have been the most significant maker of violins in Germ…
Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (born 1722)
Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
Benjamin Huntsman, English businessman (born 1704)
Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling fo…
Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, who acted as the Provisional Government for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in Nor…
The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R
Hsinbyushin, also known as Maung Rwa or Prince of Myedu (မြေဒူးမင်း), was the third emperor of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1763 to 1776. The second son of the dyna…
Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (born 1736)
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. The movement began as a rebellion and evolved into a revolution resulting in…
American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battl
The Fifth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg from May 6 to July 5, 1776. This Convention declared Virginia an independent…
The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, an influential document that proclaimed the inherent righ
The coronation of Louis XVI as King of France and Navarre took place in Reims Cathedral on 11 June 1775, which fell on Trinity Sunday. Louis XVI had come to the throne the previous…
The Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims, the last coronation before the French Revolution
Dr Alexander Anderson was an American physician and illustrator.
Alexander Anderson, Scottish-American illustrator and engraver (died 1870)
Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano, was a French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 17…
Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician (died 1840)
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain and the United States which the colonies founded. The movement began as a reb…
American Revolution: The British Army advances up the Charles River in Massachusetts to destroy supplies of American mil
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader Amer…
American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minute
The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia led by newly-installed Continental Army commander George Washing…
American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American mil
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader Amer…
American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticond
Friedrich Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Müffling, nicknamed Weiss, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and military theorist. He served as Blücher's liaison officer in Wellington's h…
Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (died 1851)
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł was a Polish–Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as a scion of th…
Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian composer and politician (died 1833)
The Battle of Machias was an early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the Battle of the Margaretta, fought around the port of Machias, Maine.
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of
The Second Continental Congress (1775–1781) was the meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War, which e…
American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia