1774 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1774 in Great Britain.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King George III
- Prime Minister - Lord North, Tory
[edit] Events
- 31 March - American Revolutionary War: Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.[1]
- 17 April - The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel in London, is founded by Theophilus Lindsey.
- 2 May - The Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.[2]
- 2 June - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is re-enacted.
- 22 June - Quebec Act passed setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.[1]
- 1 August - Joseph Priestley, working independently at Bowood House, Wiltshire, isolates oxygen in the form of a gas.[3]
- 4 October - A highwayman robs Prime Minister Lord North near Chiswick.[4]
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- The Royal Crescent, Bath, designed by John Wood the Younger, is completed.[5]
[edit] Publications
- Luke Hansard begins printing the transcripts of parliamentary debates.[1]
- Methodist founder John Wesley's pamphlet Thoughts Upon Slavery arguing against the slave trade.[6]
[edit] Births
- 29 January - Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (died 1841)
- 24 February - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850)
- 16 March - Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814)
- 12 August - Robert Southey, poet and biographer (died 1843)
- Edward Baines, newspaper-proprietor and politician (died 1848)
- Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (died 1820)
[edit] Deaths
- 1 July - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (born 1705)
- 14 July - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, field marshal (born 1682)
- 22 November - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (suicide, born 1725)
- 25 November - Henry Baker, naturalist (born 1698)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 328. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Forsyth, J.S. (1825). The Antiquary's Portfolio. London: George Wightman. p. 150.
- ^ Priestley, Joseph (1775). "An Account of Further Discoveries in Air". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 65: 384–94. JSTOR 106209.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 226–227. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Royal Crescent". Images of England. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443488. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
- ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
[edit] See also
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