Explore 312 historical events from 1770–1779.
Major John Pitcairn was a British military officer. Born in Dysart, Fife, he enlisted in the Chatham Marine Division of the British Naval Service at the age of 23. He served in Nor…
John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (born 1722)
Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani, alternatively spelled Zahir al-Umar or Dahir al-Umar, was the paramount sheikh of the Zayadina family and strongman of northern Palestine from the 1730s u…
Zahir al-Umar, Arabian ruler (born 1690)
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: Colonists Paul Revere and William Dawes, later joined by Samuel Prescott, began a midnight r
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…
The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts
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
General Thomas Gage was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his many years of service in North America, including serving as Commander-in-Chief, North …
Thomas Gage, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, offered a general pardon to colonists who remained loyal
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 force of Patriots led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga i
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: Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to convene the Secon
The American Revolution (1765–1789) 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 Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, wh
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 took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the Un…
King George III issued a proclamation that declared elements of the American colonies of Great Britain to be in a…
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became t…
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston…
Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act of 1774 is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldie
Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean…
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteo…
Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1862)
Christian Leopold von Buch, usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder and is remembered as one of the most important c…
Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1853)
Ellis Cunliffe Lister-Kay was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1841.
Ellis Cunliffe Lister, English politician (died 1853)
Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.
Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (died 1857)
The Quebec Act 1774 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. One of the principal components of the act was the e…
The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America
The Orangetown Resolutions were adopted on July 4, 1774, exactly two years prior to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. The resolutions were part of a wi…
Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's…
The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian armies victorious against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's victory brought the Yedisan between the rivers…
Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war. It is the…
Joseph Priestley was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberal political theorist. He publ…
British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by…
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)
William Lawson, MLC was a British soldier, explorer, land owner, grazier and politician. In 1800, he migrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and from 1819, he served as the commandant…
William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician (died 1850)