1774
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1774 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.
- May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
- June 2 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
- July 21 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768–74: 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.
- September 5 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- The British pass the Quebec Act setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
Births
- February 11 – Hans Jarta, Swedish political activist, administrator, and publicist (d. 1847)
- February 17 – Raphael Peale, painter
- February 24 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
- August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
- September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
Deaths
- January 21 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
- April 4 – Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1730)
- May 10 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
- August 25 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
- September 22 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- December 2 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (b. 1720)
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