Editing 1770 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 12]] &ndash; The [[Townshend Acts]] are repealed by Britain's Parliament by the efforts of Prime Minister [[Frederick North, Lord North|Frederick North]], with the exception of the increased duties on imported tea. The American colonists, in turn, stop their embargo on British imports.<ref name="Carruth1772">Gordon Carruth, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates''  3rd Edition (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1962) pp78-79</ref>
* [[April 18]] ([[April 19]] by Cook's log)<ref>{{cite journal|first=Arthur R.|last=Hinks|title=Nautical time and civil date|journal=[[The Geographical Journal]]|volume=86|year=1935|issue=2|pages=153–157|doi=10.2307/1786590|jstor=1786590|bibcode=1935GeogJ..86..153H }}</ref> 18:00 &ndash; First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain [[James Cook]] and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the [[Australia]]n continent. Land is sighted at [[Point Hicks]], and named after Lieutenant Hicks who first observes landform at 6am. 
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of Aspindza]]: [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]n king [[Erekle II]] defeats the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces, despite being abandoned by an ally, Russian General [[Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben|Totleben]].
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[First voyage of James Cook]]: Captain Cook drops anchor on {{HMS|Endeavour}} in a wide bay, about 16&nbsp;km (10&nbsp;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 area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place [[Botany Bay]] on [[May 7]].
* [[May 16]] &ndash; 14-year-old [[Marie Antoinette]] of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King [[Louis XVI of France]]) at the [[Palace of Versailles]].
* [[May 20]] &ndash; A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Helene Delalex|author2=Alexandre Maral|author3=Nicolas Milovanovic|title=Marie-Antoinette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgVVDQAAQBAJ|date=2016|publisher=Getty Publications|page=25|isbn=9781606064832}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] 
**[[Gaspar de Portolà]] and Father [[Junípero Serra]] establish [[Monterey, California|Monterey]], the ''presidio'' of [[Alta California]] territory for Spain from [[1777]]–[[1822]], [[United Mexican States]] [[1824]]–[[1846]], until the [[California Republic]].
**The 7.5 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake|Port-au-Prince earthquake]] affects the French colony of [[Saint-Domingue]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''), killing 250 or more.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Falklands Crisis (1770)]]: Some 1,600 [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] marines, sent by the Spanish governor of [[Buenos Aires]] in five frigates, seize [[Port Egmont]] in the [[Falkland Islands]]. The small British force present promptly surrenders.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindspring.com/~koz/papers/FalklandPaper.html|title=Nationalism and the Falkland Islands War|access-date=2007-08-19|archive-date=June 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605130706/http://www.mindspring.com/~koz/papers/FalklandPaper.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[First voyage of James Cook]]: {{HMS|Endeavour}} grounds on the [[Great Barrier Reef]].