1774



Year 1774 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * -, of the  dies and is succeeded by his brother.
 * - : The passes the, closing the port of  as punishment for the.
 * - becomes King of.
 * - : A new, requiring to provide better housing for  soldiers upon demand, is passed.
 * - in  escape the attack of the  army.

July - December

 * - : and the  sign the  ending six years of . The treaty does give  the right to intervene in  politics to protect its  subjects.


 * - The element is discovered for the third (and last) time&mdash;the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of  (1771-1772)&mdash; by  who publishes the fact in  and so named the element and usually gets all the credit.


 * - the assembles in.


 * - and  found the   Association, a military unit independent of British control.


 * - Document Congress in America Adpoted-Decloration and Resolves.


 * - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in and which was in defiance of British rule in.

Undated

 * The British pass the setting out rules of governance for the colony of  in British.
 * To avoid severe flooding,, is moved to higher ground three miles west.  The  incorporates Martinsborough as the new county seat of , three years after its founding.
 * German cobbler creates the first.

Births

 * -, Swedish political activist and administrator (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, whaler, captain of  (ship), rediscovered in  (d. )
 * - Captain, English explorer (d. )
 * -, French marshal (d. )
 * -, English poet and biographer (d. )
 * -, co-founder of , founder of the (d. )
 * -, German artist (d. )
 * - (John Chapman), nurseryman/missionary planted  nurseries in, , and   (d. )
 * date unknown - - n author, brother of  (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, (b. )
 * -, French mathematician and geographer (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * - King (b. )
 * -, English statesman (b. )
 * -, Irish-born New York pioneer
 * -, British field marshal (b. )
 * -, French writer (b. )
 * -, German scholar and physician (b. )
 * -, Italian composer (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, Canadian-born soldier (b. )
 * -, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. )
 * -, British general and statesman (b. )
 * -, German composer (b. )
 * -, French economist (b. )


 * See also .