Wydarzenia literackie w 1770 roku.

• John Armstrong(inne języki) – 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

• 14 stycznia – Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, polski pisarz, poeta i mąż stanu (zm. 1861)
• 20 marca – Friedrich Hölderlin, niemiecki poeta (zm. 1843)