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.svg){kind=small} 1774 in Great Britain: |
| Other years |
| 1772 | 1773 | 1774 | 1775 | 1776 |
| Sport |
| 1774 English cricket season |
Events from the year 1774 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory
Events
- 2 January - The Society of Antiquaries open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.[1]
- 31 March - American Revolutionary War: Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.[2]
- 2 June - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
- 22 June - Quebec Act passed setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.[2]
- 1 August - Independent discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley.[3]
- 4 October - A highwayman robs Prime Minister Frederick North, Lord North near Chiswick.[4]
Publications
- Luke Hansard begins printing the transcripts of parliamentary debates.[2]
- Methodist founder John Wesley's pamphlet Thoughts Upon Slavery arguing against the slave trade.[5]
Births
- 29 January - Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (died 1841)
- 24 February - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850)
- 16 March - Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814)
- 12 August - Robert Southey, poet and biographer (died 1843)
- Edward Baines, newspaper-proprietor and politician (died 1848)
- Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (died 1820)
Deaths
- 1 July - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (born 1705)
- 14 July - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, field marshal (born 1682)
- 22 November - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (suicide, born 1725)
- 25 November - Henry Baker, naturalist (born 1698)
References
- ^ Joel Munsell (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & co.
- ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 328. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Priestley 1775
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 226-227. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
See also
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