1774
Year 1774 (MDCCLXXIV ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1774
January - June
July - December
1 August - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time - the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1771-1772) - by Joseph Priestley , who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.
Undated
Births
February 11 - Hans Jarta , Swedish political activist and administrator (d. 1847 )
February 24 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850 )
March 9 - Mayhew Folger , whaler, captain of Topaz (ship), rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in 1808 (d. 1828 )
March 16 - Captain Matthew Flinders , English explorer (d. 1814 )
July 20 - Auguste Marmont , French marshal (d. 1852 )
August 12 - Robert Southey , English poet and biographer (d. 1843 )
August 28 - Elizabeth Ann Seton , co-founder of Mount Saint Mary's University , founder of the Sisters of Charity (d. 1821 )
September 5 - Caspar David Friedrich , German artist (d. 1840 )
September 26 - Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), nurseryman/missionary planted apple-tree nurseries in Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois (d. 1847 )
date unknown - Sergei Nikolayevich Glinka - Russian author, brother of Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka (d. 1847 )
See also Category: 1774 births .
Deaths
January 21 - Mustafa III , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717 )
February 4 - Charles Marie de La Condamine , French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701 )
April 4 - Oliver Goldsmith , English writer (b. 1730 )
May 4 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714 )
May 10 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710 )
July 1 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland , English statesman (b. 1705 )
July 11 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet , Irish-born New York pioneer
July 14 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine , British field marshal (b. 1682 )
August 11 - Tiphaigne de la Roche , French writer (b. 1722 )
August 14 - Johann Jakob Reiske , German scholar and physician (b. 1716 )
August 25 - Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer (b. 1714 )
September 22 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705 )
September 25 - John Bradstreet , Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714 )
October 23 - Michel Benoist , French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715 )
October 26 - Roemer Vlacq II , Dutch vice-admiral (b. 1712 )
November 22 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , British general and statesman (b. 1725 )
December 2 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , German composer (b. 1720 )
December 16 - François Quesnay , French economist (b. 1694 )
Elizabeth Woollat , wife of Jedediah Strutt (b. 1729 )
See also Category: 1774 deaths .
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