1770

1770 (MDCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1770th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 770th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1770, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1767 1768 1769 – 1770 – 1771 1772 1773

1770 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1770 MDCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2523
Armenian calendar	1219 ԹՎ ՌՄԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6520
Balinese saka calendar	1691–1692
Bengali calendar	1177
Berber calendar	2720
British Regnal year	10 Geo. 3 – 11 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2314
Burmese calendar	1132
Byzantine calendar	7278–7279
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4466 or 4406     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4467 or 4407
Coptic calendar	1486–1487
Discordian calendar	2936
Ethiopian calendar	1762–1763
Hebrew calendar	5530–5531
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1826–1827
- Shaka Samvat	1691–1692
- Kali Yuga	4870–4871
Holocene calendar	11770
Igbo calendar	770–771
Iranian calendar	1148–1149
Islamic calendar	1183–1184
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 7 (明和７年)
Javanese calendar	1695–1696
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4103
Minguo calendar	142 before ROC 民前142年
Nanakshahi calendar	302
Thai solar calendar	2312–2313
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1896 or 1515 or 743     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 1897 or 1516 or 744

Events

• March 5 – Boston Massacre: 5 Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
• May 14 – Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
• May 16 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).
• May 16 – Fireworks at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris cause a fire – 800 dead
• June 3 – Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, which was the capital of California from 1777-1849.
• July 1 – Comet Lexell (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth
• August 22 – James Cook claimed for Great Britain the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia)
• Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.
• Joseph Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's Conjecture.

Births

• December 17 – Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised).