1774 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1774?
- March 31, 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- May 10, 1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
- June 2, 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- June 13, 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- June 16, 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- June 22, 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- July 4, 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- July 21, 1774 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
- September 1, 1774 – Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- September 4, 1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
- September 5, 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- October 21, 1774 – First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
- October 26, 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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