Wydarzenia literackie w 1770 roku.
Nowe książki
John Armstrong – Miscellanies
James Beattie – An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
Edmund Burke – Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
William Duff – Critical Observations on the Writings of the Most Celebrated Geniuses in Poetry
Edward Gibbon – Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid
Oliver Goldsmith:
- The Life of Thomas Parnell
- Life of Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw – A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince
Baron d’Holbach – Systeme de la Nature
Samuel Johnson – The False Alarm
Catharine Macaulay – Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, Thoughts on the Present Discontents (polemika z Burke’m)
L. S. Mercier – Memoirs of the Year 2500
Thomas Percy – Northern Antiquities
Catherine Talbot – Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week
Augustus Montague Toplady – A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley
Voltaire – Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs
Arthur Young – A Six Months Tour Through the North of England
Urodzili się
14 stycznia – Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, polski pisarz, poeta i mąż stanu (zm. 1861)
20 marca – Friedrich Hölderlin, niemiecki poeta (zm. 1843)