In history, year 1774 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1774 .
Top Historical Events of the Year 1774: Date/Month Event / Incidence / Incident 21 july The Russo-Turkish War officially ended after the Russian Empireand the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, with thelatter ceding parts of the Yedisan region to the former. 01 august British scientist Joseph Priestley liberated oxygen gas,corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemistCarl Wilhelm Scheele. 01 september Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, ordered soldiers to remove gunpowder from a magazine, causing Patriots to prepare for war. 04 september British explorer James Cook became the first European to sightthe island of New Caledonia. 05 september In response to the British Parliament enacting the IntolerableActs, representatives from twelve of Britain's North American coloniesconvened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall inPhiladelphia. 29 september The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther raised the 24-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to international fame. 31 May First Postal Service Office opened in India. 20 October Calcutta (now Kolkata) was made the capital of India. 06 December Austria became the first country to implement the state education system. 13 December The first incident of the American Revolution occurred. 07 March Britain's Boston Port closed to all commercial activity. 31 March Postal service started in India, first post office opened. 30 January Captain James Cook reached 71 ° 10 \ 'south, 1820 km from the South Pole. 10 February Andrew Baker participated in a diving suit demonstration. 13 March First Postal Service Office opened in India. 17 April The first explicitly Unitarian mandala of the Ascest Street Chapel in London was established by Theophilus Lindsey. 10 May Louis XVI became King of France after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV. 31 June Britisse America's colony Road Ireland banned slavery. He was the first colony to do so. 12 July Citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, passed the symbolic Declaration of Independence. 06 August Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shekhar movement, immigrated to New York. 05 September The First Continental Congress united in Philadelphia. 14 October The First Continental Congress declared colonial rights in Philadelphia. 17 November The First City Troop was built in the halls of the Philadelphia City Caverly Carpenter. Philadelphia - Oldest US Military Unit 13 December The first incident of the American Revolution - 400 attacks on FT William and Mary in New Hampshire.
Famous birthdays in the year 1774: Date/Month Name / Profession / Country 01 January André Marie Constant Duméril / Academic / France 02 June William Lawson / Politician / United Kingdom 05 March Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse / Composer / Denmark 05 September Caspar David Friedrich / Painter / Germany 07 May William Bainbridge / Soldier / United States of America 12 August Robert Southey / Poet / United Kingdom 16 February Pierre Rode / Violinist / France 16 March Matthew Flinders / Navigator / United Kingdom 16 November Georg von Cancrin / Politician / Germany 17 July John Wilbur / Politician / United States of America 18 August Meriwether Lewis / Soldier / United States of America 20 July Auguste de Marmont / General / France 21 June Daniel D. Tompkins / Politician / United States of America 21 April Jean-Baptiste Biot / Astronomer / France 24 November Thomas Dick / Author / Scotland 24 June François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo / Engineer / France 24 June Antonio González de Balcarce / Politician / Argentina 26 April Christian Leopold von Buch / Geologist / Germany 26 September Johnny Appleseed / Gardener / United States of America 28 August Elizabeth Ann Seton / Saint / United States of America
Famous Indian Personalities Birthdays in the year 1774: Year Name / Profession / Country 14 September Lord William Bentic / British soldier / India
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