Explore 246 historical events from 1770–1779.
José Domingo de la Merced de La Mar y Cortázar was a Peruvian military leader and politician who served as the third President of Peru.
José de La Mar, Peruvian military leader, President of Peru (died 1830)
Simon Fraser was a Canadian explorer and fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. He also built the first European settlement in Britis…
Simon Fraser, American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (died 1862)
Thomas Rickman was an English architect and architectural antiquary who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival. He is particularly remembered for his Attempt to Discriminate the …
Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony on the eastern coast of North America, founded in 1636 on former land of the Narragansett tribe by Purit…
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars
John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pic…
John Constable, English painter and academic (died 1837)
Francis Johnson was a U.S. representative from Kentucky.
Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (died 1842)
Jacob Emden, also known as the Yaʿavetz, was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement.…
Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (born 1697)
Edward Wortley Montagu was an English writer and traveller.
Edward Wortley Montagu, English explorer and author (born 1713)
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly, French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served a…
Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (born 1717)
Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling fo…
Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, who acted as the Provisional Government for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in Nor…
The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence or simply the American Revolution, was the armed conflict that comprised the fin…
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration
Martin Leopold Widhalm was an Austrian or German luthier known for his work in Nuremberg. Charles Beare considers Widhalm to have been the most significant maker of violins in Germ…
Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (born 1722)
Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
Benjamin Huntsman, English businessman (born 1704)
Jeremiah Markland was an English classical scholar.
Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (born 1693)
Richard Peters, born in Liverpool became an attorney, Anglican minister, and civil servant. In 1735 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he served in numerous posts for the Penn fam…
Richard Peters, English lawyer and minister (born 1704)
Thomas Hickey was an Irish-born soldier who served in the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War, and was the first Continental Army soldier to be executed for "mutin…
American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hange
The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. The movement began as a rebellion and evolved into a revolution resulting in…
American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts the Lee Resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great…
The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. The movement began as a rebellion and evolved into a revolution resulting in…
American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia. Originally placed in the ste…
Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the…
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces…
George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in…
Hsinbyushin, also known as Maung Rwa or Prince of Myedu (မြေဒူးမင်း), was the third emperor of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1763 to 1776. The second son of the dyna…
Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (born 1736)