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| 1773 |
| | | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele isolates oxygen but does not immediately publish his achievement | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Samuel Johnson and James Boswell undertake a journey together to the western islands of Scotland | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Some fifty colonists, disguised as Indians, tip a valuable cargo of tea into Boston harbour as a protest against British tax | |
|  | Satirical response to British tea in America
National Archives, Kew
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| 1773 |
| | | Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order | |
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| 1774 |
| | | As a retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, the British parliament closes Boston's port with the first of its Coercive Acts | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, brings him an immediate European reputation | |
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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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