1770s
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The 1770s was a decade marked by major global transformations, including European exploration of the Pacific Ocean under James Cook, the American colonies' declaration of independence from British rule, and the expansion of European company control in India. This period matters because these events fundamentally reshaped world geography, political boundaries, and the balance of power between European nations and their colonies for centuries to come.
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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 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 colonialism over the 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 lead to now-Russia's first occupation of Crimea; initiating Russia's influence over Crimea that has since persisted today. rect 36 36 1613 1075 Second voyage of James Cook rect 1650 36 3227 1075 United States Declaration of Independence rect 36 1112 1075 2151 Boston Tea Party rect 1112 1112 2151 2151 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) rect 2188 1112 3227 2151 Company rule in India rect 36 2188 1075 3227 Carl Wilhelm Scheele rect 1112 2188 2151 3227 Amazing Grace rect 2188 2188 3227 3227 Daniel Rutherford
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.