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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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| c. 1775 |
| | | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Pioneer Daniel Boone and other backwoodsmen cut the road west that will bring settlers to Kentucky | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Patrick Henry makes a stirring declaration – 'Give me liberty or give me death' – to the Virginia Assembly | |
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