1770 in France

Events from the year 1770 in France.

Incumbents

16 May - 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste 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, 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 materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published

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 26