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1774

1774

Calendar year


1774 (MDCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1774, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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December 9: Start of the two month long Siege of Melilla

Events

Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War.

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April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

André Marie Constant Duméril born 1 January
Pietro Giordani born 1 January
Anna Bunina born 7 January
William Stewart born 10 January
Tryphosa Jane Wallis born 11 January
Marie-Thérèse Figueur born 17 January
William Blake (economist) born 31 January
Thomas Veazey born 31 January
Edward Cross (zoo proprietor) born 3 February
Valentin Stanič born 12 February
Roswell Weston born 24 February
William Farquhar born 26 February
Magdalene of Canossa born 1 March
David Semyonovich Abamelik born 10 March
Johann Caspar Horner born 12 March
Rose Fortune born 13 March
Matthew Flinders born 16 March
Claudine Thévenet born 30 March
Sophie Thalbitzer born 15 April
Franz Hegi born 16 April
Madhavrao II born 18 April
Jean-Baptiste Biot born 21 April
Anna Gottlieb born 29 April
Samuel Owen (engineer) born 12 May
Friederike von Reden born 12 May
Joseph Bouchette born 14 May
Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs born 15 May
Francis Beaufort born 27 May
Robert Tannahill born 3 June
Henry Philip Hope born 8 June
Carl Haller von Hallerstein born 10 June
Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov born 18 June
Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg born 29 June
Marcia Arbuthnot born 9 July
Robert Jameson born 11 July
Axel Otto Mörner born 11 July
Charles de Graimberg born 30 July
Diodata Saluzzo Roero born 31 July
Robert Southey born 12 August
Meriwether Lewis born 18 August
Ludvig Frederik Brock born 20 August
Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn born 24 August
Elizabeth Ann Seton born 28 August
Caspar David Friedrich born 5 September
Anne Catherine Emmerich born 8 September
Johnny Appleseed born 26 September
Adolf Müllner born 18 October
Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford born 18 October
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg born 4 November
Charles Bell born 12 November
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands born 18 November
Vasile Moga born 19 November
Elisabeth Canori Mora born 21 November
Peter Frederik Wulff born 26 November
Princess Maria Antonia of Parma born 28 November
William Henry (chemist) born 12 December
Eline Heger born 13 December

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Deaths

Mustafa III died 21 January
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken died 30 March
Oliver Goldsmith died 4 April
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich died 23 April
Maria Machteld van Sypesteyn died 26 April
William Hewson died 1 May
Louis XV died 10 May
Joseph Gerrish died 3 June
Joshua Kirby died 20 June
Anna Morandi Manzolini died 9 July
Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland died 24 July
Johann Jakob Reiske died 14 August
Imperial Noble Consort Qinggong died 21 August
Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder died 18 September
Pope Clement XIV died 22 September
Willem Bentinck van Rhoon died 13 October
Robert Fergusson died 16 October
Abraham Tucker died 20 November
Johann Siegmund Popowitsch died 21 November
Henry Baker died 25 November
Deborah Read died 19 December
Paul Whitehead (satirist) died 20 December

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References

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  4. "Beaumarchais", in The Cornhill Magazine (August 1884) p142
  5. "Fire News of the Week", in Fire and Water Engineering (December 9, 1905) p337
  6. Clifford Kenyon Shipton, New England Life in the Eighteenth Century: Representative Biographies from Sibley's Harvard Graduates (Harvard University Press, 1995) p324
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  9. Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House, 2011) p406
  10. Ann Fairfax Withington, Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics (Oxford University Press, 1996) p197
  11. "Giacomo Casanova", by Mattia Begali, in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2007) p402
  12. Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography (Algonquin Books, 2008) p152
  13. Charles R. Steinwedel, Threads of Empire: Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552–1917 (Indiana University Press, 2016) p73
  14. Joe Jackson, A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen (Penguin, 2007) p114
  15. Robert W. Kirk, Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 (McFarland, 2012) p27
  16. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3 (D. Appleton and Company, 1891) p456
  17. Richard R. Beeman, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776 (Basic Books, 2013) p xi
  18. Spencer Tucker, Almanac of American Military History (ABC-CLIO, 2013) p211
  19. James B. Collins and Karen L. Taylor, Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) p57
  20. Karen Racine, Francisco de Miranda, a Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) p13
  21. Jennifer J. Davis, Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830 (LSU Press, 2013)
  22. "Clement XIV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 1, 2020.

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