Explore 159 historical events from 1770–1779.
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)
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ra…
The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on
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 rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse
Cúcuta, officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is loca…
Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
Henrik Steffens, was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher and poet (died 1845)
Arthur Aikin was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society. He first became its treasurer in 1841, and later became …
Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (died 1854)
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)
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service…
Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (died 1859)
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)
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)
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
David Ricardo was a British economist and politician. He is recognized as one of the most influential classical economists, alongside figures such as Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and…
David Ricardo, British economist and politician (died 1823)
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
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is…
Novalis, German author and poet (died 1801)
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (died 1823)
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS was a British Army officer, Tory politician, publisher and inventor. A pioneer in the field of rocket artillery, he was renowned for his d…
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor and politician, developed Congreve rockets (died 1828)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian social reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform mov…
Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (died 1833)
Gottfried Achenwall was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.
Gottfried Achenwall, Polish-German historian, economist, and jurist (born 1719)
Durastante Tommaso Francesco Emiliano Natalucci was an Italian historian who specialized in history of Trevi, in Umbria.
Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (born 1687)