1770

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1770.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: German physicist and wit Georg Christoph Lichtenberg visits England
• * Event: The Count of St. Germain is reported as being in Livorno/Italy

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March

• March 5:
  • In Boston, a mob of people were harassing a group of soldiers and throwing stones and snowballs at them. The nervous soldiers opened fire, killing several men. Sam Adams called the incident "the Boston Massacre" and used it to further whip up anti-British sentiment.

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