1774

Western and Central Europe

• Wilkes was elected to Parliament, and the London bourgeoisie elected him Lord Mayor .
• 1774-1792 - King Louis XVI of France.
• 1774–1776 - Turgot Reforms (General Controller of Finance) in France. Reduction of duties on imported food products in the cities, introduction of privileged duties. The peasant road corvee was abolished, the road tax on the feudal lords was introduced.
• Strike in Lyon .

Eastern Europe

• Joining Ossetia to the Russian Empire .
• July 21 - Kyuchuk-Kaynardzhiysky peace between Russia and Turkey was signed.
• July 23 - The troops of the rebels under the leadership of Yemelyan Pugachev temporarily seize Kazan .
• September 19 - in the area of Uzeni , near the village of Kazachya Talovka (now the village of Kaztalovka in the West Kazakhstan region ) Pugachev , the leader of the Peasant War of 1773-1775, was captured.
• 1774-1789 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid I.

Asia

• 1774-1775 - Mass unrest in the Younger (Khan Nuraly) and Middle (Khan Ablai) zhuzes.
• Law of the English Parliament on the Governance of India . The governor of Bengal became the governor-general of all possessions in India. A governor-general council was created.
• 1774-1785 - Warren Hastings (Hastings) , Governor-General of the British possessions in India.
• Hastings defeated the main rebel forces in Bengal.
• The troops of the East India Company suddenly invaded Rohilkhand , ransacked it and subordinated Auda.
• 1774-1775 - An armed uprising against the Manchus in Shandong organized by the White Lotus Secret Society.

America and Oceania

• The British Parliament passed the “ Intolerable Laws ”: the Boston port was closed, the governor of Massachusetts received emergency powers, the colony of Massachusetts lost the self-government charter, it banned city rallies and canceled the jury, the huge North-West territory behind Allegans was annexed to Canada (the Quebec Act ).
• June 1 - the entry into force of the port closure bill . In a sign of solidarity, declared in Virginia the day of "sorrow, fasting and prayer."
• September 5 - October 26 - The work of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia (USA) (except for representatives of Georgia, whose delegation was detained by the governor). Writing the "Declaration of Rights" of the American colonies. The resolution (proposed by J. Warren) about disobeying British orders, boycotting British goods and beginning military preparations. Established Continental Association . Education in the districts of "Security Committees" to monitor the decisions of the association. Congress addressed the king with a complaint, adopted an appeal to the people of 13 colonies, to the peoples of England and Canada. Winter - Armed units began to spontaneously arise in the colonies.
• December 1 - The trade boycott between the UK and its North American colonies, initiated by the first Continental Congress , came into force.
• The opening of the expedition of Cook Islands of Fiji , New Caledonia .

See also: Category: Born 1774

• January 18
  • Bernhard Dreseke ( Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräsecke ), German theologian, preacher, bishop (died 1849 ).
  • Anna Petrovna Bunina , the first major Russian poetess, Russian Sappho and the Tenth Muse , as her contemporaries called her (died in 1829 ).
• April 4 - Isidore Weiss , Vilna art engraver, publisher, professor at Vilnius University (died in 1821 ).
• April 21 - Jean Baptiste Biot , French physicist, geodesist and astronomer (died in 1862 ).
• April 26 - Anne Jean-Marie Rene Savary , Duke de Rovigo, French political and military leader (died 1833 ).
• May 7 - Francis Beaufort , English admiral , military hydrograph and cartographer (died in 1857 ).
• August 12 - Robert Southey , English romantic poet, representative of the “Lake School” (died 1843).
• September 5 - Caspar David Friedrich , German painter (died in 1840 ).
• September 17 - Giuseppe Mezzofanti , Italian Cardinal, an outstanding polyglot (died in 1849 ).
• Barlaam Chikoisky - Abbot of the Chikois Monastery of St. John the Baptist , the holy Russian Church .

• February 4 - Charles-Marie de la Condamine , French astronomer, geodesist and traveler, explorer of South America , honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (born 1701 ).
• September 22 - Clement XIV , Pope of Rome (born 1705 ).
• November 22 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive Pleussi , British Governor of Bengal , winner of Plassey , one of the founders of the British colonial empire (born 1725 ).
• December 20 - Paul Whitehead , English satirist poet (born 1710 ).