What Happened In April 1770 - Historical Events 1770 April

Historical Events for April, 1770

19th » Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
19th » Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy marriage known as proxy wedding.
20th » The Georgia (country) Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian Empire Russian ally Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman Empire Ottoman forces at Battle of Aspindza Aspindza.
29th » James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

3rd » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
7th » William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
8th » John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian politician (d. 1830)
9th » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
11th » George Canning, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
25th » Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
30th » David Thompson (explorer) called David Thompson, English-Canadian cartographer and explorer (d. 1857)