Historical 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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1774 in Music
- Apr 19 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris
Matthew Flinders
Meriwether Lewis
Elizabeth Ann SetonFamous People in 1774
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWorld Leaders in 1774
Frederick North
Frederick the Great
Louis XVI
Famous Weddings
- Apr 28 Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
- Oct 10 Composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer
Famous People Who Died in 1774
- 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 [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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