31st March » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
10th May » Louis XVI of France known as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
2nd June » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in Thirteen Colonies named colonial America to house Kingdom of Great Britain known as British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters a
22nd June » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
21st July » Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
1st August » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1st September » Province of Massachusetts Bay or Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
4th September » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
5th September » First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
21st October » First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of Kingdom of Great Britain named British rule in Colonial America.
26th October » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Famous Birthdays in 1774
1st January » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
16th February » Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830)
24th February » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
16th March » Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814)
21st April » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1862)
26th April » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
7th May » William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833)
2nd June » William Lawson (explorer) e.g William Lawson, English-Australian explorer (d. 1850)
21st June » Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician, 6th Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
24th June » Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentinian commander and politician, 5th Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
24th June » François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
17th July » John Wilbur (Quaker minister) e.g John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (d. 1856)
20th July » Auguste de Marmont, French general (d. 1852)
12th August » Robert Southey, English poet and author (d. 1843)
18th August » Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1809)
28th August » Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)
5th September » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (d. 1840)
8th September » Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic (d. 1824)
14th September » Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (d. 1839)
19th September » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal (d. 1849)
26th September » Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
18th November » Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
24th November » Thomas Dick (scientist) e.g Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, educator, and author (d. 1857)
Famous Deaths in History for 1774
21st January » Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1717)
4th February » Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
4th April » Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1728)
4th May » Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (b. 1714)