Year by year · 18th century

1774

1774 in world history: 10 events, 7 births, 10 deaths, 3 works and 2 states founded. 1,293 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 1 August

    Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen

    By heating mercuric oxide, Joseph Priestley produced a gas in which a candle burned with remarkable vigour. He called it 'dephlogisticated air'; Lavoisier later named it oxygen.

  2. 5 September

    The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

    Delegates from twelve colonies gathered at Carpenters' Hall to coordinate resistance to Britain's Intolerable Acts. They agreed a boycott of British goods and planned to meet again.

  3. Treaty · Peace

    Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

    The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca was signed in 1774 between the Ottoman Empire and Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.

  4. Event

    Quebec Act

    The Quebec Act was a British law of 1774 for the government of the Province of Quebec.

  5. Event

    Massachusetts Government Act

    The Massachusetts Government Act was one of the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.

  6. Treaty

    Treaty of Lal Dhang

    The Treaty of Lal Dhang was concluded in October 1774 between Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, and the Rohilla chief Faizullah Khan at the end of the First Rohilla War.

ProfileState1112 states with a known seat in 1774Open the atlas at 1774 →

In the profiles

  • Crimean KhanateTreaty of Kuchuk Kainarji ends Ottoman suzerainty
  • CircassiaTreaty of Küçük Kaynarca recognises Kabarda as Russian

Wars and longer events

Born in 1774 7

Died in 1774 10

Works 3

States founded 2

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