Major Events
- Feb 22 British House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
- Aug 1 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state
- Sep 5 Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo against Great Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Oct 14 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
- Dec 14 First incident of American Revolution - 400 New Hampshire militiamen successfully attack Fort William and Mary
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Matthew Flinders
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Who Died in 1774
- Jan 21 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (1757-74). dies of a heart attack at 56
- Jan 30 František Tůma, Czech composer, dies at 69
- Jan 30 Jean-Pierre Guignon [Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer, dies at 71
- Feb 4 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
- Feb 10 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
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Famous Weddings in 1774
- Apr 28 Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
- Oct 10 Italian composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederick North
Frederick the Great
Louis XVI