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Australia discoveries by Europeans before 1813[/caption]
In the year 1770, the Boston Massacre takes place - an event that helps start the American Revolution five years later (Mar 3), James Cook and his crew complete the circumnavigation of New Zealand (Mar 26) and later become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent (Apr 18), 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste, the future King Louis XVI, in Paris (May 7), James Cook claims the whole of eastern coast of Australia for Great Britain, later naming it New South Wales (Aug 22) - and all these fine people were born:
1770-xxxx William Joseph Denison* wealthy banker in Liverpool/politician/MP - England (1849/c. 79)
1770-xxxx Olli Tiainen* Finnish rebel leader/border captain - Tiilikanautio, Sweden-Finland (1833/c. 63)
1770-0101 Erik Junnelius* merchant/ ship owner/philanthropist - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1831/61)
1770-0115 Eliza Fletcher* early travel writer/autobiographer - Oxton, Yorkshire, England (1858/88)
1770-0119 Wang De-lu* soldier/ general - Zhuluo County, Taiwan Prefecture, Qing Empire (1842/72)
1770-0125 Francis Burdett* politician/MP - Foremarke Hall, Derbyshire, England (1844/73)
1770-0209 Ferdinando Carulli* Italian guitarist/composer - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1841/71)
1770-0210
1770-0215 Mårten Fredrik Ringbom* lawyer/ mayor/statesman - Harju, Sweden-Finland (1811/41)
1770-0221 Georges Mouton* soldier/political figure/Marshal of France - Phalsbourg, Lorraine, Kingdom of France (1838/68)
1770-0226 Anton Reicha* Czech-French composer/music theorist/lifelong friend of Beethoven - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1836/66)
1770-0228
1770-0302 Louis-Gabriel Suchet* Marshal of France/one of the greatest generals of the Napoleonic Wars - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1826/55)
1770-0313 Daniel Lambert* gaol keeper/animal breeder/famous for his unusually large size - Leicester, England (1809/39)
1770-0320 Friedrich Hölderlin* German poet/philosopher - Lauffen am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (1843/73)
1770-0322
1770-0327 Anna Lisa Jermen* artisan/businesswoman - Naantali, Sweden-Finland (1799/28)
1770-0402 Alexandre Pétion* the first president of the Republic of Haiti - Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue (1818/47)
1770-0405
1770-0407 William Wordsworth* poet - Cockermouth, Cumberland, England (1850/80)
1770-0409 Thomas Johann Seebeck* German physicist - Reval (Tallinn), Russian Empire (1831/61)
1770-0411 George Canning* Tory statesman/PM - Marylebone, London, England (1827/57)
1770-0420
1770-0424 Basil Montagu* barrister/ writer/philanthropist - England (1851/81)
1770-0425 Georg Sverdrup* statesman - Laugen, Norway (1850/80)
1770-0504 François Gérard* French painter - Rome, Papal States (1837/66)
1770-0510 Louis-Nicolas Davout* military commander/Marshal of the Empire - Annoux, Kingdom of France (1823/53)
1770-0515 Ezekiel Hart* entrepreneur/politician in British North America - Trois-Rivières, Province of Quebec (1843/73)
1770-0520
1770-0527 Ignaz Döllinger* doctor/anatomist/physiologist - Bamberg, Upper Franconia (1841/70)
1770-0603 Manuel Belgrano* Argentine public servant/lawyer/military leader - Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru (1820/50)
1770-0604 James Hewitt* British-American conductor/composer/music publisher - Dartmoor, England (1827/57)
1770-0610
1770-0620 Moses Waddel* educator/slave owner/ author - Rowan County, North Carolina, British America (1840/70)
1770-0630
1770-0701
1770-0723 Fredrik Wilhelm Edelheim* senator - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1833/62)
1770-0727 Nicolò Pasqualigo* navy officer/Venetian patrician - Venice, Republic of Venice (1821/50)
1770-0801 William Clark* American explorer/ Indian agent/territorial governor - Ladysmith, Colony of Virginia, British America (1838/68)
1770-0818 Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer* German scholar/the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree in Germany - Göttingen, Lower Saxony (1825/54)
1770-0827 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel* philosopher - Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg (1831/61)
1770-0901
1770-0910
1770-0912 Beata Juhontytär Ala-Kuhna** (b Jaakko-Kokko) mother of Helena Heikintytär Luoma - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1847/76)
1770-0913 Jacob Holmstén* merchant/ civil servant - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1814/43)
1770-0920
1770-0922 Moritz Haubold von Schönberg* leader of the Prussian provinces Silesia and Pomerania- Geußnitz, Lower Saxony (1860/89)
1770-0926 Adolf Broberg* soldier/ general/governor - Sweden-Finland (1849/78)
1770-1001
1770-1005
1770-1010 Adam Johann von Krusenstern* Baltic German admiral/leader of the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe - Haggud Manor, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (1846/75)
1770-1018 Thomas Phillips* painter - Dudley, Worcestershire, England (1845/74)
1770-1020 Carl Gustaf Lagermarck* soldier/ stateman - Ulvila, Sweden-Finland (1825/55)
1770-1031
1770-1102 Johan Henrik Furumark* colonel during the Finnish War - Mikkeli, Sweden-Finland (1835/65)
1770-1110
1770-1116 Étienne Pivert de Senancour* essayist/ philosopher - Paris, Kingdom of France (1846/75)
1770-1119 Bertel Thorvaldsen* sculptor/medalist - Copenhagen, Denmark (1844/73)
1770-1125 Tuomas Tuomala* farmer/ civil servant - Loimaa, Sweden-Finland (1827/56)
1770-1130
1770-1202 Nils Magnus Tolpo* theologian/ priest - Köyliö, Sweden-Finland (18)
1770-1210
1770-1212 Gabriel Poppius* Finnish civil servant/judge/active in Sweden - Juva, Sweden-Finland (1856/85)
1770-1216 Ludwig van Beethoven* pianist/ composer - Bonn, Germany (1827/56)
1770-12
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