Explore 370 historical events from 1770–1779.
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: Loyalists and Iroquois killed over 300 Patriots at the Battle of Wyoming in Pennsylvania.
Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'état against her husband, Peter III. Her long rei…
On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from…
The Battle of Ushant took place on 27 July 1778, and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant, an island…
The Battle of Ushant, the first encounter between the French and British fleets in the American Revolutionary War,…
The Anglo-French War, also known as the War of 1778 or the Bourbon War in Britain, was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain, sometimes with their respective …
Anglo-French War: Having established an alliance with the United States, France invaded the Caribbean island of…
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. His mathematical contributi…
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (died 1855)
Mary Reibey was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as a convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a c…
Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman (died 1855)
John George Children FRS FRSE FLS PRES was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist. He was a friend of Sir Humphry Davy, who helped him secure a controversial appointment to …
John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (died 1852)
Robert Clark was a medical doctor and politician. He served in the New York State Assembly and one term as United States Representative from New York. With his family, he moved to …
Robert Clark, American physician and politician (died 1837)
David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.
David Daniel Davis, Welsh physician and academic (died 1841)
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, S.S., was a Canadian Sulpician, who served as the first Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (died 1840)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarc…
John Ross, Scottish commander and explorer (died 1856)
Paavo Heikki Ruotsalainen was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher who became the leader of the revivalist Awakening religious movement in Finland.
Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (died 1852)
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet at the intersection of the neoclassical with the Romantic style of British poetry.
Thomas Campbell, Scottish-French poet and academic (died 1844)
General Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, CB was a peer and British Army officer.
Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (died 1853)
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina…
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine priest and politician (died 1849)
Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is know…
Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (died 1851)
Francis I of the Two Sicilies was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830 and regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1806 to 1814.
Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies (died 1830)
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, better known under his archimandrite monastic name Hyacinth, sometimes known as Joacinth or Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology…
Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (died 1853)
Heinrich David Stölzel was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments. He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölz…
Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer (died 1844)
James Carr, son of U.S. Congressman Francis Carr, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts.
James Carr, American soldier and politician (died 1818)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, also known as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a British-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he was the third of the fiv…
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (died 1836)
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert.
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and playwright (born 1709)
Sybil Ludington was an alleged heroine of the American Revolution and daughter of Patriot colonel Henry Ludington. Relatives of Ludington have claimed that on April 26, 1777, at …
Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June…
Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of I