Editing 1770s

{{short description|Decade of the Gregorian calendar}}

<imagemap>File:1770s montage.jpg|thumb|335x335px|From top left, clockwise: Englishmen and sailor [[James Cook]] concludes his inaugural and embarks on his second voyage, leaving a trail of significant milestones along its way such as the discovery of [[New Caledonia]], [[Australia]], [[Tahiti]], the [[Antarctic Circle]], and becoming the first humans to witness [[Southern Ocean|Antarctic waters]] as pictured; The [[United States Declaration of Independence]] was unanimously signed and adopted by the [[Second Continental Congress]], announcing the colonies' intention to separate from [[Great Britain]]; [[Company rule in India]] establishes governance over India for the first time at [[Calcutta]], giving way for [[British Empire|British colonialism]] over the [[British Raj|Indian subcontinent]], and eventually [[Western imperialism in Asia]]; [[Nitrogen]] gas was isolated from air by Scottish scientist [[Daniel Rutherford]]; [[Amazing Grace]] was sung for the first time as a hymn in [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]] at 1773; Chemist [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]] made several breakthroughs in [[chemistry]] by discovering five chemical elements, namely [[oxygen]] (1771), [[barium ]](1772), [[chlorine]] (1774), [[manganese]] (1774), and [[molybdenum]] (1778); The [[Boston Tea Party]] protest precipitates anti-British sentiment in the [[Thirteen Colonies]], and subsequently the [[American Revolutionary War]]; A [[Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)|Russo-Turkish War]] lead to now-[[Russia]]'s first occupation of [[Crimea]]; initiating Russia's influence over Crimea that has since persisted today.
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The '''1770s''' (pronounced "seventeen-seventies") was a [[decade]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]] that began on January 1, 1770, and ended on December 31, 1779. A period full of discoveries,  breakthroughs happened in all walks of life, as what emerged at this period brought life to most innovations we know today.

From nations such as the [[United States]], birthed through hardships such as the [[American Revolutionary War]] and altercations akin to the [[Boston Tea Party]], spheres of influence such as the [[Russian Empire]]'s sphere from its victorious [[Crimean]] claims at the [[Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)|Russo-Turkish War]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], and [[populism]], their influence remains omnipresent to this day.

New lands south of the [[Equator]] were discovered and settled by Europeans like [[James Cook]], expanding the horizons of a [[New World]] to new reaches such as [[Australia]] and [[French Polynesia]]. Deepened philosophical studies led to the publication of works such as [[Adam Smith]]'s "''[[The Wealth of Nations]]''", whose concepts influence much of modern socio-economic thought, and sowed the seeds to the global incumbent [[liberal international order|neoliberal world order]]. Studies on [[chemistry]] and [[politics]] deepen to forge the [[Age of Enlightenment|Age of Reason]] for centuries to come.

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