Important 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 14 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
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Meriwether LewisWorld Leaders in 1774
Frederick North
British Prime Minister- Frederick the Great
King of Prussia - Louis XVI
King of France
Frederick North
Frederick the Great
Louis XVIFamous People in 1774
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical Musician and Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFamous 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