1774 Calendar
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1774 Historical Event(s)
March 31, 1774
– American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
June 2, 1774
– Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
June 13, 1774
– Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
June 22, 1774
– The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
July 4, 1774
– Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
July 21, 1774
– Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
September 1, 1774
– Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
September 4, 1774
– New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
September 5, 1774
– First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
October 21, 1774
– First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
Who Were Born On 1774?
January 1, 1774
– André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
January 27, 1774
– Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
February 11, 1774
– Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
February 24, 1774
– Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
March 16, 1774
– Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
May 7, 1774
– William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
June 2, 1774
– William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
June 24, 1774
– Antonio González de Balcarce, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
September 26, 1774
– Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
November 18, 1774
– Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)