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1770 in Great Britain

1770 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1770 English cricket season

Events from the year 1770 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Whig (to 28 January), Frederick North, Lord North, Tory

17 January - American Revolution: British troops clash with American colonists at the Battle of Golden Hill.^[1]
28 January - Following Grafton's resignation, Lord North forms a government and becomes Prime Minister.^[2]
5 March - Boston Massacre: five Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.^[3]
12 April - American Revolution: Parliament repeals the Townshend Act.^[1]
20 April - First voyage of James Cook discovers the eastern coast of Australia.^[3]
9 June - Spanish troops seize Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands triggering a crisis.^[4]
10 June - James Cook discovers the Great Barrier Reef when HM Bark Endeavour runs onto it.^[3]
July - Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves obtains a patent for the spinning jenny.^[5]
22 August - James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.

The chemist Joseph Priestley, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.
The London Evening Post becomes the first newspaper to publish parliamentary reports.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 325–326. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ "Downing Street website, PMs in history". Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
^ ^a ^b ^c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ "Nationalism and the Falkland Islands War". Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
^ "James Hargreaves, Cotton Town". Retrieved on 2007-08-19.