Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1770
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Literature
- Goethe completes the first part of Faust
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, with several lines by
Samuel Johnson
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Parnell
- Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, Ancient Scottish Poems
Theatre
- Samuel Foote, The Tame Lover
- Kelly, A Word to the Wise
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Paul Henri Dietrick d'Holbach publishes Système de la
nature, denying any cosmic plan in nature
- Jesse Ramden invents the screw-cutting lathe
Politics & Law
- January: Grafton resigns as Lord Treasurer, and is replaced
by North
- Parliament passes Grenville's act on contested elections
- The Spanish occupy Falkland's Islands
- Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents
- Samuel Johnson, The False Alarm, on the Wilkes affair
- The printers and publishers of the letters of "Junius" are
tried for seditious libel
- The Boston Massacre: British troops fire on citizens of
Boston
Philosophy & Theology
- Beattie, An Essay on Truth
- Ferguson, Institutes of Moral Philosophy
Milestones
- Marriage of the Dauphin of France (later Louix XVI) to Marie
Antoinette
- Death of Akenside
- Death of Charles Avison, composer
- Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven
- Death of Thomas Chatterton
- Death of Guthrie
- Birth of James Hogg
- Death of Jortin
- Death of John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor
- Death of George Whitefield
- April: Birth of William Wordsworth
Miscellaneous
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