Significant Events
- Feb 22 British House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
- Aug 1 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author 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 13 First incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Fort William and Mary, New Hampshire
1774 in Music
- Apr 19 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris
World Leaders in 1774
Frederick North
British Prime Minister
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Louis XVI
King of France
Famous People in 1774
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Musician and Composer
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Meriwether LewisFamous Weddings
- Apr 28 Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
- Oct 10 Composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer
Famous Deaths
- Jan 21 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717). Reigns 1757 to 1774. Dies at 56
- Jan 30 František Tůma, Czech composer, dies at 69
- Jan 30 Jean-Pierre Guignon, 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