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1770s

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Noun1.1770s - the decade from 1770 to 1779
decade, decennary, decennium - a period of 10 years

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(85) East Lothian Justices of the Peace (a layer of local government introduced into Scotland in 1609) complained in the early 1770s that putting lunatics in Haddington tolbooth was "turning the county gaol into a madhouse.
He informs us of the activities of the Indian Armenians, who pioneered Armenian journalism in the 1770s and contributed a major history of the homeland; this was when the monks in Venice were working hardest.
The book also details the history of many deep-sky objects' discoveries, starting with observations made by Charles Messier in the late 1770s.
 
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