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| 1774 |
| | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1774 |
| | Britain's new Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts include the requirement that Massachusetts citizens give board and lodging to British troops | |
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| 1774 |
| | The Spanish, now in sole occupation of the Falkland Islands, call them Las Islas Malvinas | |
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| 1774 |
| | Encouraged by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine emigrates to America and settles in Philadelphia | |
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| 1774 |
| | In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia | |
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| 1774 |
| | The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control | |
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| 1774 |
| | Illiterate visionary Ann Lee, leader of an English sect, the 'Shaking Quakers', crosses the Atlantic to spread the word | |
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| 1774 |
| | English chemist Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen, but he believes it to be 'dephlogisticated air' | |
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| 1774 |
| | Delegates from twelve American colonies meet in Philadelphia and agree not to import any goods from Britain | |
| | Signatures on the petition of the Continental Congress National Archives, Kew
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| 1774 |
| | Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London | |
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