Explore 370 historical events from 1770–1779.
Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, S…
Robert Southey, English poet and author (died 1843)
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the…
Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (died 1809)
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she marri…
Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian…
Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV was a Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist.
Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic (died 1824)
Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck,, known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of the Bengal …
Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (died 1839)
Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German prince and military officer.
Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (born 1714)
Louis XV, known as Louis the Beloved, was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he re…
Louis XV, King of France (born 1710)
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical wo…
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (died 1840)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755. He also held the offices of Secretary of State for th…
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
Anna Morandi Manzolini was an Italian anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna. She became internationally known for the pr…
Anna Morandi Manzolini, Spanish anatomist (born 1714)
Major-General Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate…
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (born 1715)
Field Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and 1st Baron Kilmaine, PC was a British army officer. After serving as a junior officer in Spain and the Low Countries during the Wa…
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, Irish field marshal (born 1682)
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche,, was a French writer.
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French physician and author (born 1722)
Johann Jakob Reiske was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.
Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (born 1716)
Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic re…
Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer and educator (born 1714)
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 (pictured) liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of the element by the…
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 …
Under orders from Governor Thomas Gage, British soldiers removed gunpowder from a magazine in the Province of…
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies …
In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of…
Wolraad Woltemade 1708 – 1 June 1773 was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table Bay on 1 June 1773. The stor…
Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse
Cúcuta, officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is loca…
Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
Henrik Steffens, was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher and poet (died 1845)
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ra…
The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service…
Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (died 1859)
Arthur Aikin was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society. He first became its treasurer in 1841, and later became …
Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (died 1854)