1770s

This article is about the decade on the Western calendar Common Era. For other uses, see 1770 (disambiguation).
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 17th century18th century19th century
Decades: 1740s 1750s 1760s1770s1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779
1770s-related
categories:
Births – Deaths – By country
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

Contents: 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779

1770

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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1771

JanuaryJune

Plague Riot in Moscow, 1771

JulyDecember

Date unknown

The Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed.

1772

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

1773


JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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1774

Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War.

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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1775


Summary

The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) and a Marine force (November 10) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British (June 12) and American (July 15) governments make laws. On July 6, Congress issues the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and on August 23, King George III of England declares the American colonies in rebellion, announcing it to parliament on November 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

Human knowledge and mastery over nature advances when James Watt builds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captain James Cook claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean for Britain. Nature's power over humanity is dramatically demonstrated when the Independence Hurricane (August 29 – September 13) devastates the east coast of North America, killing 4,173, and when a smallpox epidemic begins in New England.

January–June

July–December

August 18: Tucson is founded

Date unknown

The Honourable Mrs Graham (1757–1792) painted by Gainsborough in 1775


1776


JanuaryFebruary

MarchApril

MayJune

JulyAugust

July 4: American Declaration of Independence.

SeptemberOctober

September 22: British hang spy Nathan Hale in New York City.

NovemberDecember


1777


JanuaryJune

June 14: US Flag (had various star patterns)

JulyDecember

Date unknown

1778


JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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1779


JanuaryJune

Benedict Arnold

JulyDecember

Date unknown

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