1774

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
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Years:	1771 1772 1773 – 1774 – 1775 1776 1777

Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War.

[edit] Events of 1774

January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.
January 27 – An angry crowd in America seizes a British customs collector and then tars and feathers him.
March 31 – Intolerable Acts: The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston, Massachusetts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.
May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France following the death of Louis XV.
June 2 – Intolerable Acts: A new Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide better housing for British soldiers upon demand, is passed.

July 21 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, ending six years of war. The treaty does give Russia the right to intervene in Ottoman politics to protect its Christian subjects.

1 August – The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1771–1772) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

September 21 – George Mason and George Washington found the Fairfax County Militia Association, a military unit independent of British control.

October 21 – The word "Liberty" is first displayed on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
To avoid severe flooding, Martinsborough, North Carolina is moved to higher ground 3 miles (4.8 km) west. The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Martinsborough as the new county seat of Pitt County, 3 years after its founding.
German cobbler Johann Birkenstock creates the first Birkenstock sandals.

February 11 – Hans Jarta, Swedish political activist and administrator (d. 1847)
February 24 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
March 9 – Mayhew Folger, whaler, captain of Topaz (ship), rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in 1808 (d. 1828)
March 16 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
July 20 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
August 18 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator (d. 1809)
August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, co-founder of Mount Saint Mary's University, founder of the Sisters of Charity (d. 1821)
September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
September 26 – Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), nurseryman/missionary planted apple-tree nurseries in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois (d. 1847)
date unknown – Sergei Nikolayevich Glinka – Russian author, brother of Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka (d. 1847)
date unknown – Lalon Fakir – Undivided Indian Mystic, song composer who influenced Rabindranath Tagore (d. 1890)

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