- 1770 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1770 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George III of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton ,Whig (to28 January ),Frederick North, Lord North ,Tory Events
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17 January -American Revolution : British troops clash with American colonists at theBattle of Golden Hill .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=325–326]
*28 January - Following Grafton's resignation, Lord North forms a government and becomes Prime Minister. [cite web|url=http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page165.asp|title=Downing Street website, PMs in history|accessdate=2007-08-19]
*5 March -Boston Massacre : five Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start theAmerican Revolutionary War five years later.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*12 April - American Revolution: Parliament repeals the Townshend Act.
*20 April -First voyage of James Cook discovers the eastern coast of Australia.
*9 June - Spanish troops seizePort Egmont in theFalkland Islands triggering a crisis. [cite web|url=http://www.mindspring.com/~koz/papers/FalklandPaper.html|title=Nationalism and the Falkland Islands War|accessdate=2007-08-19]
*10 June -James Cook discovers theGreat Barrier Reef whenHM Bark Endeavour runs onto it.
* July -Industrial Revolution :James Hargreaves obtains a patent for thespinning jenny . [cite web|url=http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?LANGUAGE=eng&pageID=506|title=James Hargreaves, Cotton Town|accessdate=2007-08-19]
*22 August -James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.Undated
* The chemist
Joseph Priestley , recommends the use of a rubber to removepencil marks.
* The "London Evening Post " becomes the first newspaper to publish parliamentary reports.Publications
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Edmund Burke publishes " [http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Burke0061/SelectWorks/HTMLs/0005-01_Pt02_Thoughts.html Thoughts on the Present Discontents] ".
*Oliver Goldsmith 's poem "The Deserted Village ".Births
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25 January
**Francis Burdett , politician (died 1844)
**James Hogg , poet and novelist (died 1835)
*2 February -George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon , nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836)
*11 March -William Huskisson , Member of Parliament (died 1830)
*7 April -William Wordsworth , poet (died 1850)
*11 April -George Canning ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827)
*30 April - David Thompson, British-Canadian explorer (died 1857)
*7 June -Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)
*13 December -John Clarke Whitfield , organist and composer (died 1836)Deaths
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20 January -Charles Yorke , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1722)
*23 June -Mark Akenside , poet and physician (born 1721)
*July 27 -Robert Dinwiddie , British colonial Governor of Virginia (born1693 )
*24 August -Thomas Chatterton , poet (suicide) (born 1752)
*30 September -Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham , politician and diplomat (born c. 1695)
*30 September -George Whitefield , English-born Methodist leader (born 1714)
*18 October -John Manners, Marquess of Granby , soldier (born 1721)
*9 November -John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll , politician (born c. 1693)
*13 November -George Grenville ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1712)References
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