1770 in France
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Events from the year 1770 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 16 May â 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI) at the Palace of Versailles
- 20 May â A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people[2]
- 3 June â The 7.5 Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more
- 14 Juneâ3 October â Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded history[3]
- 7 December â Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces[4][5]
- 24 December â César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the king[6]
- Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's conjecture
- The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published
Culture
- 20 January â The new Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), the first purpose-built opera house in Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, is inaugurated with a performance of Rameau's Zoroastre[7][8]
- 16 May â The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated.[9]
- 27 October â First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau
- December â The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the public[10]
- The Théâtre Déjazet is established in Paris by the Comte d'Artois
- Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of 26[11]
Births
- 5 February â Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847)
- 21 February â Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838)
- 2 March â Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826)
- 25 March â Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802)
- 10 May â Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823)
- 18 December â Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840)
Deaths
- 14 March â Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697)
- 19 April â Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696)[12]
- 25 April â Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700)
- 30 May â François Boucher, painter (born 1703)
- 3 August â Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703)
- 28 November â Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685)
- 15 December â Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)
