1774

Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War.

Events of 1774

January 21 - Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.
January 27 - An angry crowd in America seizes a British customs collector and then tars and feathers him.
March 31 - Intolerable Acts: The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston, Massachusetts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
April 17 - The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.
May 10 - Louis XVI becomes King of France following the death of Louis XV.
June 2 - Intolerable Acts: A new Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide better housing for British soldiers upon demand, is passed.
June 11 - Jews in Algiers escape the attack of the Spanish army.

July 21 - Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, ending six years of war. The treaty does give Russia the right to intervene in Ottoman politics to protect its Christian subjects.

1 August - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time - the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1771-1772) - by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

September 21 - George Mason and George Washington found the Fairfax County Militia Association, a military unit independent of British control.

October 21 - The word "Liberty" is first displayed on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
To avoid severe flooding, Martinsborough, North Carolina is moved to higher ground 3 miles west. The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Martinsborough as the new county seat of Pitt County, 3 years after its founding.
German cobbler Johann Birkenstock creates the first Birkenstock sandals.

1774 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1774
MDCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita 2527
Armenian calendar 1223
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԳ
Bahá'í calendar -70 – -69
Berber calendar 2724
Buddhist calendar 2318
Burmese calendar 1136
Byzantine calendar 7282 – 7283
Chinese calendar 癸巳年十一月十九日
(4410/4470-11-19)

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甲午年十一月廿九日
(4411/4471-11-29)
Coptic calendar 1490 – 1491
Ethiopian calendar 1766 – 1767
Hebrew calendar 5534 – 5535
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1829 – 1830
- Shaka Samvat 1696 – 1697
- Kali Yuga 4875 – 4876
Holocene calendar 11774
Iranian calendar 1152 – 1153
Islamic calendar 1187 – 1188
Japanese calendar An'ei 3
(安永3年)
Korean calendar 4107
Thai solar calendar 2317