1774 - What happened in 1774 ?

March 1774

Thursday 31:

American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.

May 1774

Tuesday 10:

Louis XVI becomes King of France.

Saturday 28:

American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.

June 1774

Thursday 02:

Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.

Saturday 11:

Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.

Monday 13:

Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

Thursday 16:

Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

July 1774

Thursday 21:

Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774.

August 1774

Monday 01:

The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.

September 1774

Monday 05:

First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

October 1774

Friday 21:

First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.