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Year 1770 (MDCCLXX) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1770

January–June

• January 1 – Foundation of Fort George, Bombay laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
• March 5 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.
• April – James Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the bay, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, James Cook calls the place Botany Bay.
• April 19 – British explorer Captain James Cook, and his crew aboard the Endeavour, become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
• May 7 – Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives at the French court.
• May 16 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis-Auguste (who later becomes Louis XVI King of France).

July 5: Battle of Chesma, by Ivan Aivazovsky.

• May 16 – Fireworks lit by Eric Engelbrecht, at the wedding of the crown prince of France in Paris, cause a fire, killing 132 people.
• June - The Spanish governor of Buenos Aires sends five frigates to Port Egmont, landing some 1600 marines. The small British force present promptly surrenders.
• June 3 – Gasper de Portola and Father Junipero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777–1822, United Mexican States 1824–1846, until the California Republic.

July–December

• July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 1357155 miles, the closest approach by a comet in recorded history.
• July 5 – Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga: The Russian Empire defeats the Ottoman Empire in both battles.
• July 21 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 – Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks.
• August 22 – James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.

Undated

• Falkland Crisis (1770)
• Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.
• Joseph Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's Conjecture.

Births

• February 21 – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (d. 1838)
• March 2 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (d. 1826)
• March 20 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
• April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
• April 11 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
• April 25 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
• April 30 – David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
• May 10 – Louis Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (d. 1823)
• May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur & politician (d. 1843)
• May 29 – Charles Adams, second son of President John Adams (1735–1826) (d. 1800)
• June 3 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general in the Independence War (d. 1820)
• June 7 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
• June 20 – Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
• August 1 – William Clark, explorer, Governor of Missouri Territory, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d. 1838)
• August 3 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
• August 27 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
• December 15/16 – (baptized December 17) Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
• December 18 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France and Minister of War (d.1840)

See also Category: 1770 births.

Deaths

• January 7 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
• January 20 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
• February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (b. 1692)
• March 5 – Crispus Attucks, African-American, first to die in the Boston Massacre (b. 1723)
• March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian artist (b. 1696)
• April 25 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
• May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• June 23 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
• July 27 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
• August 24 – Thomas Chatterton, English poet (b. 1752)
• September 30 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
• September 30 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
• October 18 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
• November 9 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
• November 13 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
• November 24 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
• December 5 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
• October 14 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (b. 1696)

See also Category: 1770 deaths.

From Wikiquote

From Wikitravel

1770 / Agnes Water is a beachside destination near Gladstone in the Capricornia region of Queensland.

Understand

Agnes Water is a small town, facing the ocean. A few minutes further on the town of 1770 is smaller again, and faces the bay where Captain Cook landed. There is a patrolled ocean beach at Agnes. At 1770 there is a waveless beach, extensively used for boating, but with a small bathing area as well. There is an extensive camping area right on the beach, so if you are not camping you will contend with campers doing what campers do on the beach. Most accommodation in Agnes refers to itseld as being in 1770, and is a little more upmarket than 1770 itself. The wharf where the Reef cruises leave from is at 1770 itself, in the bay.

Get in

By plane

There is an airstrip, but no scheduled commercial flights. Commercial flights into Bundaberg to the south, and Gladstone to the north, but if looking for a cheap airfare, the Fraser Coast airport at Hervey Bay, around 90 minutes drive to the south, may be an option.

• Captain Cook Monument, (Captain Cook Drive). Captain Cook came ashore here in 1770, and the monument commemorates the event  edit

• The Great Barrier Reef. Day boat trips to the reef and to Lady Musgrave Island leave from 1770

Agnes Water beach

• Headland Walk. From the end of Captain Cook drive there is a walk out to the headland, and a view out over the ocean and the bay.

• Surf. Agnes Water is the most northerly surf beach on the eastern coast of Australia, the ones further north are protected by the Great Barrier Reef.

• Ocean Swimming. Agnes Water has a patrolled ocean beach. 1770 has a sheltered beach on the bay.

Buy

There are two sets of shops at Agnes Water. Two supermarkets, souvenirs, and a collection of locally made products.

• Agnes Water Bakery, (Agnes Water Shopping Centre). Bread, sandwiches, meat pies. Moist caramel mud cake.  edit

Drink

There are pubs in 1770 and in Agnes. In 1770 you get a view over the bay. There is a pizza restaurant linked.

• Agnes Water Tavern, 1 Tavern St.  edit

• Agnes Water Beach Club. 1 and 2 bedroom units.  edit
• Sandcastles 1770, [1]. 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments. A 200m walk down the beach access path directly onto the beach. Two swimming pools, and cool water spa. Cafe and restaurant on site.  edit
• 1770 Getaway, [2]. 2 bedroom villas  edit

• Mantra Pavillions Mirage on 1770, Beaches Village Circuit Agnes Water, [3]. Still in Agnes Water, although further towards 1770 and away from the patrolled beach than the other hotels.  edit