Events from the year 1770 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events 16 May – 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI) at the Palace of Versailles 20 May – A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people 3 June – The 7.5 Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more 14 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded history 7 December – Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces 24 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the king 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 – 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 16 May – The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated. 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau December – The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the public 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 26McKinven, Mary Jane (June 2002). Stunning Still Lifes by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Foremost 18th-Century Painter in Court of Marie-Antoinette. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art.
Births 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847) 21 February – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838) 2 March – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826) 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802) 10 May – Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823) 18 December – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840)
Deaths
14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697) 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696) 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700) 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703) 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703) 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685) 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)
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