1774 in History – What happened in year 1774

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