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| 1770 |
| | | 17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, later hailed as a significant poet, commits suicide in a London garret | |
|  | Thomas Chatterton, engraving after unknown artist, c.1768
National Portrait Gallery, London
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| 1770 |
| | | Captain Cook reaches the mainland of Australia, at a place which he names Botany Bay, and continues up the eastern coast | |
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| 1770 |
| | | In response to American protests, the British government removes the Townshend duties on all commodities with the exception of tea | |
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| 1770 |
| | | King George III pays for the church on Kew Green to be greatly enlarged. It is expanded again in 1810 and further additions are made in later years. | |
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| 1770 |
| | | 27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain') | |
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| 1771 |
| | | English entrepreneur Richard Arkwright adds water power to spinning by means of the water frame | |
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| 1771 |
| | | Richard Arkwright pioneers the factory environment with his cotton mill at Cromford in Derbyshire | |
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| 1772 |
| | | Russia, Prussia and Austria agree a treaty enabling them to divide the spoils in the first partition of Poland | |
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| 1772 |
| | | The first partition of Poland begins the process of Lithuania being progressively absorbed into Russia | |
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| 1772 |
| | | Gustavus III achieves a coup d'état which brings executive power in Sweden back into royal hands | |
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