1774

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1771 1772 1773 - 1774 - 1775 1776 1777\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1774 in art
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 21 - Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.\n* May 10 - Louis XVI becomes King of France. \n* June 2 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted. \n* July 21 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending six years of war. \n* September 5 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. \n* The British pass the Quebec Act setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.

Births

\n*February 11 - Hans Jarta, Swedish political activist/administrator/publicist\n* February 17 - Raphael Peale, painter\n* February 24 - Prince Adolphus of Great Britain, 1st Duke of Cambridge\n*August 12 - Robert Southey, English Romantic poet, biographer

Deaths

\n* January 21 - Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.\n* April 4 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright\n* August 25 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer\n* September 22 - Pope Clement XIV\n* December 2 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n