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1771 1772 1773 - 1774 - 1775 1776 1777
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|} in Tsarskoe Selo , commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War.]]
1774 was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
March
orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act .
April
May
September
October
December
Births
Deaths
- January 21 - Mustafa III , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717 )
- February 4 - Charles Marie De La Condamine , French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701 )
- April 4 - Oliver Goldsmith , English writer (b. 1730 )
- May 4 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714 )
- May 10 - King Louis XV Of France (b. 1710 )
- July 1 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland , English statesman (b. 1705 )
- July 11 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet , Irish-born New York pioneer
- July 14 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley And Kilmaine , British field marshal (b. 1682 )
- August 11 - Tiphaigne De La Roche , French writer (b. 1722 )
- August 14 - Johann Jakob Reiske , German scholar and physician (b. 1716 )
- August 25 - Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer (b. 1714 )
- September 22 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705 )
- September 25 - John Bradstreet , Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714 )
- October 23 - Michel Benoist , French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715 )
- November 22 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , British general and statesman (b. 1725 )
- December 2 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , German composer (b. 1720 )
- December 16 - François Quesnay , French economist (b. 1694 )
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