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Born in 1774:
English
poet
Robert Southey
.
English
anatomist
Charles Bell
.
German Mathematician
Karl Brandan Mollweide
.
German romantic painter
Caspar David Friedrich
.
French
astronomer
Jean-Baptiste Biot
.
English astronomer
Francis Baily
.
English painter
George Chinnery
.
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
, founder of the
Sisters of Charity
, first American-born
saint
.
Canonized
in
1975
.
John Chapman
, better known as
Johnny Appleseed
.
Died in 1774:
King
Louis XV
of France.
Loius XVI
assumes the throne.
Deborah Read Rogers Franklin
, wife of
Benjamin Franklin
.
Italian composer
Niccolò Jommelli
.
Pope
Clement XIV
.
Events of 1774:
In response to the
Boston Tea Party
,
Parliament
passes several acts, dubbed the
Intolerable Acts
:
The
Boston Port Act
, closing the port of
Boston
until the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid back.
The
Administration of Justice Act
, preventing British soldiers from being tried in the colonies. A similar act exepmts British soldiers from all
Massachusetts
law.
The
Quebec Act
, dividing
Canada
into French-speaking
Lower Canada
and English-speaking
Upper Canada
, but also taking territory away from
Massachusetts
(in
Maine
),
New York
, and
Pennsylvania
and gaving it to Canada. The southern border of Quebec is set at the
Ohio River
.
The
Quartering Act of 1765
,
expanded to require British troops to be quartered in private homes.
The Intolerable Acts have an effect opposite to the one intended: The colonies unite against Great Britain.
The first
Continental Congress
convenes in Philadelphia.
"The Association", a universal
boycott
of trade with Great Britain, is established.
Paul Revere
carries news to
Portsmouth
that troops are being sent to reinforce
Fort William and Mary
in that city. That next day the fort is raided; all of its gunpowder is taken. The day after that, all of the light cannon and small arms are taken.
(October) Residents of
Annapolis
,
Maryland
discover that the ship
Peggy Stewart
is carrying a cargo of tea. The owner is forced to run the ship aground and burn it.
Lord Dunmore
, the Governor of
Virginia
, leads an army into
Kentucky
. He defeats the
Shawnee
chief
Cornstalk
at the
Battle of Point Pleasant
. This removed the last obstacle to colonization west of the
Appalachian
s.
John Wesley
, founder of
Methodism
, calls for the
abolition
of
slavery
.
Captain
James Cook
visits the islands of
Rapa Nui
(
Easter Island
) and
Espiritu Santo
).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
publishes the archetypal
Sturm und Drang
novel,
The Sufferings of Young Werther
.
Joseph Priestley
discovers
oxygen
.
The Treaty of
Kucuk Kainarji
ends the war between
Russia
and
the Ottoman Empire
. Russia gains
Bessarabia
(
Moldova
), and access to the
Black Sea
.
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